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roe deers (Capreolus Capreolus)

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ROE DEERS // MUSCLES [NEXT WAVE ACID PUNX: DEUX, OCT 2023]

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A couple of roe deers on a November morning.

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minimal - three roe deers in the fog | uwhe-arts

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21/11/2023-Lakeside and home

Photos taken in this set are of: 1. Viburnum, Black-eyed Susans and more in the garden. 2, 3, 4 and 8. Views on a lovely lunch time walk at Lakeside including autumnal colour and a pretty clump of fleabane seed heads. 5, 6, 9 and 10. Two beautiful Roe Deers which it was enchanting to watch and connect with on my lunch time walk. 7. Sky out the back this evening.

I was also excited to see a Cormorant diving and swimming on beach lake and a Kestrel for the second day running, flying over the meadows seen from afar. Tufted Ducks again, nice views of Moorhens including one walking along the path, Coot, Great Crested Grebes, Herring Gull, Black-headed Gulls, Robin, Blackbird and Blue Tit, Great Tit and lovely views of Long-tailed Tits flying into a tree overhanging Concorde lake were other bird highlights on the walk. It was great to see my first Blue Tit in the garden for a while at home with Goldfinches, Collared Doves and for the second day running the evocative feel of Greylag Geese flying over always an immersive moment from my room which is lovely good to see as well. Ragwort, wild carrot, white clover, daisy, hawthorn berries, vibrant rose hips and holly berries were other nice plants seen on my walk with geranium in the back garden and rose hips out the front enjoyed at home.

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08/01/2023-Milkham in the New Forest

We came here today and had a lovely walk around taking in the Broomy Walk area too and saw three more bird species for the first time in 2023, tapping into the larder of woodland species and New Forest specialities we were yet to see this year. Firstly a sweet Treecreeper shuffling up a bold beach, seeing my first of the year on the last walk of my week off to open the year in the forest for the second year running after Blackwater a year ago tomorrow. Later on in the wooded part of the walk we saw a Song Thrush or two. This is a bird I have had a bit of fun with in my mind this week as whilst I wouldn’t say I regularly see them at Lakeside I certainly do see them there a lot and have a lot on my annual New Year’s Day walk there over the years. Early in that walk a week ago today this year I heard a Song Thrush maybe two singing beautifully one of my favourite bird songs deep in vegetation but just couldn’t see it/them after a few minutes of trying. Conscious of wanting to keep the pace I wanted for that walk I moved on thinking I may well see one further on, but didn’t and didn’t see or hear another for the rest of this week. So it became a common species to be entertained at luckily for us a lot of rarer species beating it onto my year list something I enjoy about New Year birding. I was looking forward to looking for them more and there is something nice about just sneaking one into my week off.

In the heath we quickly saw a Dartford Warbler, one of the ultimate New Forest birds which it was a delight to see. This is one I always aspire to see in a year and am so lucky that we have now got the species on ten year lists in a row after really becoming more aware of them from 2014 onwards, but you never know when you’ll see one so it always feels special and valuable to see one. A great moment with a top bird of my year so far with 115 species seen this year a wonderful figure to end the week off on. Also on the walk it was nice to see a handful of Redwings flying around late on in the heath and a charming little Goldcrest in the woods.

A couple of late Roe Deers as dusk began to fall was a special and attractive sight and it was nice to see and photograph one for a second Sunday running after Lymington last week I took the eighth picture in this photoset today of one, it was a powerful natural moment as I saw and felt it gazing back at me. There were great bits of gorse in flower which looked pretty especially in golden sunlight I took the fifth picture in this photoset of this and I also enjoyed fungi on trees and lichen on the heath and trees on the walk. I took the second picture in this photoset of fungi on a log and sixth of lichen on wood.

It was pleasing to take in views of heath, raging full streams, rich woodland lit perfectly by the sun with gorgeous and dominant scenes of sun shining through trees this afternoon and lighting up bits of vegetation and engaging sky scenes. We arrived in a pressing rain shower that had defined the day until that point, but it cleared really nicely with great bits of sunlight as the afternoon went on. There were great scenes of glistening raindrops clinging to trees as the shower cleared. It was amazing in this open and vast landscape to see the sun lower behind a line of conifers and the clouds redden. It felt like a memorable day of taking in and photographing landscape today. I took the first, third, fourth, seventh and ninth pictures in this photoset of views here today. It was good to get chatting to some nice people as we have done at places all this week.

At home today it was a treat to see the Dunnock in the bush out the front which the tenth and final picture in this photoset shows and the spider I noticed in my en suite last night again and the one in the crack in the landing.

Wildlife Sightings Summary for the Milkham walk: My first Treecreeper, Song Thrush and Dartford Warbler of the year, Redwing, Blackbird, Robin, possible Coal Tit, Goldcrest, Woodpigeons seen well, Collared Dove, Carrion Crow, Roe Deer and New Forest Pony and Grey Squirrel seen nicely towards the end.