1st November '11 I saw the Rutting...

While the weather is still fine I shall remain walking the areas I like in the mornings, and it is a good job that I did this today has I would of missed a spectacular rarity.

 It was pretty quiet over the Mere and the fields leading up to Grange Farm, and the Copse to, then it happened. I always look in the field next to the Copse and between the Seven Trent  as I often see the deer in there, but today I was met with three stags in the open field rutting. One deer watched as the two others clashed antlers.

As is the norm I carry my camera everywhere, apart from the day I went to meet David Tennant and forgot it - but thats another story, so I grabbed it out  the case and started to video, why on this usually quite lane did hundreds of cars go past so I can't hear the deer bellow. Hot air arose from their mouths as they exhaled and chased each other. I spent 15 mins just watching them in awe, from a distance with a fence and hedge between us as to make myself safe as the Stags can be unpredictable in the rutting period.

link Here is a link to the set of photos and two videos  I have put upon Flickr of the rut.

On my way back through the Copse as I was hunting Fungus, as I like to photograph that to. I have given up looking on the floor for it now as more of it seems to be high up on dead silver birch trees, and different species to. I heard a strange noise, I presumed it was a bird so looked towards the sound and it was a squirrel. I was amazed as I had never heard a squirrel make a noise before. I preusume he was looking for a mate.

Today as been great and as made up for the few weeks that nothing as happened to blog about.

 link on rutting deer.