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Roe Deer? (2 Viewers)
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matt green
Norfolkman gone walkabout
Definately not roe!
At first I thought they might have been sika? but the second picture looks very much like a female red deer.
They do have very long snozzles (not a technical term that) compared to the slightly more compact features of sika and roe.
Matt
At first I thought they might have been sika? but the second picture looks very much like a female red deer.
They do have very long snozzles (not a technical term that) compared to the slightly more compact features of sika and roe.
Matt
matt green
Norfolkman gone walkabout
MSA said:
Good point about the rump!
Think I might have to stand corrected on this one |:$|
Hi Deborah..
Don't know why I didn't think of fallow,I think the lack of white spots threw me off the scent!,of course they would be indistict in the winter.Is it me or does the
speciman far left in the first pic look like a juvenile?
matt
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Farnboro John
Well-known member
Concur Fallow Deer, the rump pattern is diagnostic in a British context.
In winter coat spots are absent but note the two-tone flanks.
John
In winter coat spots are absent but note the two-tone flanks.
John
Bish
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Mike Richardson
Formerly known as Skink1978
I agree that they are Fallow Deer. They are the only British deer that has the black and white rump pattern as is shown in the photo (as the above posts already say). Sika Deer have a similar pattern, however the tail is smaller and is more white.
Not sure where the photo was taken Bish. I always get good views of Fallow Deer at Hatfield Forest, although I'm still waiting for a decent view of a Muntjac. In East Yorkshire, Roe Deer are getting more and more common and I seem to see one or two every week.
Not sure where the photo was taken Bish. I always get good views of Fallow Deer at Hatfield Forest, although I'm still waiting for a decent view of a Muntjac. In East Yorkshire, Roe Deer are getting more and more common and I seem to see one or two every week.
Gill Osborne
Well-known member
I'm about 90% positive they ARE Fallow.
If you look at the tail pattern in the fourth photo you can quite clearly see the white bum, brownish tail with black stripe down the centre.....Sika don't have the black stripe: I think they have more of a brown one.
One of the programmes last week on Nature's Calender had Chris Packham watching deer at Fountains Abbey ( if i'm remembering rightly) and he did a drawing of the differences in rump/tail pattern between Red, Sika and Fallow Deer. The Fallow was the only one with a black stripe going down the centre of the tail.
Mind you, I've never had experience of these three species up here in Northumberland.....tis mostly Roe we get in these parts.
If you look at the tail pattern in the fourth photo you can quite clearly see the white bum, brownish tail with black stripe down the centre.....Sika don't have the black stripe: I think they have more of a brown one.
One of the programmes last week on Nature's Calender had Chris Packham watching deer at Fountains Abbey ( if i'm remembering rightly) and he did a drawing of the differences in rump/tail pattern between Red, Sika and Fallow Deer. The Fallow was the only one with a black stripe going down the centre of the tail.
Mind you, I've never had experience of these three species up here in Northumberland.....tis mostly Roe we get in these parts.
