In a few minutes of browsing/grazing, Red deer have undone a couple of years worth of planting, eating the growing/flowering tips or uprooting the newer plants. But they are still impressive to observe.........wonder if I'll see any on my way to the nursery for more plants?!
A circular route mostly downhill
A deer jumped over the wall into a friends son who was out on his bike. He hit the deer and ended up in hospital.
A deer was spooked by the Rombalds stride runners one year just near the start. Charged and hit a runner who had to be airlifted to hospital.
Just a couple of 'scrapes' with red deer stags over the years.
Some 40 years ago, driving the Land Drover down the 'quiet side' of the River Lune between Rigmaden and Kearstwick a stag jumped onto the road directly in front of me. If I'd accelerated, instead of instinctively braking, we'd have dined off venison for a few weeks. Having galloped down the road in front of the L/R for a couple of hundred yards, it leapt sideways and cleared a 4 foot high thorn hedge at the top of a 4 foot high banking in one bound without breaking stride.
Around 7 years ago whilst out from his house with a friend from Shap, we were descending from Wasdale Pike towards the top of the Wet Sleddale reservoir; running over a crest and into a wide, shallow re-entrant we found ourselves face to face with a stag that was pawing the ground and snorting at us with his antlers lowered into an 'attack' position. Glancing to my rear right, I spotted a hind. I suggested to Steve that we stepped backwards whilst continuing to give the stag a "strong eye". After we'd taken 10 or 12 paces, the hind ran across in front of us to join the stag and the pair of them trotted away.
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I was a bit of an oddball until I was abducted by aliens; but I'm perfectly OK now!
These unfortunate encounters between deer and vehicles wouldn't happen if the deer were as well-behaved as some I saw on the one occasion that I have visited the USA. It was in Washington state, where I had hired a bicycle and was cycling along a minor road through a wooded area. A hind came out of the forest with her fawn; they stopped at the side of the road to look for traffic, waited until I had gone past, and then crossed the road. So nice to see Mummy teaching her child how to cross the road safely!
A couple of years ago as I neared the end of The Hebden challenge event and was climbing a steep, wooded rocky hillside, I heard a crashing in the undergrowth above to my right, then a deer careered downhill just in front of me. It's the only one I've ever seen around those parts. They're scary at speed.
As, I imagine, are you!Originally Posted by BritNick
"...as dry as the Atacama desert".
My best one was alongside Loch Sween - a Roe deer emerged from the side and set off on the road in front of me and stayed there at about 30kph for around 800metres. I was riding my bike, I must add, not running! Must see if Paul still has the GoPro footage on his lap top..............
A circular route mostly downhill
Thanks for the compliment, Graham.As, I imagine, are you!
I wonder if this is the only forum topic to have jumped from 2007 to 2017?
most surprising was 2 red deer on Bleaklow...
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