29-08-2017, 07:49 PM
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Re: Deer at Wollaton Park
Originally Posted by clumsy
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Lovely photos, but steer well clear of him come October/November, rutting season. Quite some years ago there was a very friendly Stag in Chatsworth Park, the then Duchess of Devonshire wanted to start another herd of Red Deer, the Stag was a gift to her from Riber Zoo. There was already one female (and a right menace she was too, having been brought up in Riber Zoo and made a pet of).As it got towards October reports from people walking in the park said the Stag was behaving "funny". The gamekeeper was despatched to check the Stag, he started walking towards it with an apple.........it tossed him clear over his Landrover, he shot the Stag. You would have thought he would have had more sense, as a gamekeeper he should have realised it was the start of rutting season. He was off work quite some time with his injuries.
In Windsor great park they have notices warning people when the Stags are in rut - i have never been very near them , I was about 5 feet away from this fellow.
Wollaton Hall also has a herd of fallow deer .
Its a fantastic place Elizabethan Batman was filmed here !
(not my photo)
29-08-2017, 08:23 PM
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We used to live near there and we frequently went there for a walk on Sunday afternoons. The dear usually just ignore people as they see so many but when we were there they were moved to another area during the rutting season. There is also an area in the park that used to be used for launching hot air balloons. I presume they still do. I remember when I was working on one of the top floor wards at Nottingham University Hospital., and looking out of the window and seeing a balloon shaped like a house floating by. It belonged to the local building society.PS the hospital is also known as Queens Medical Center
18-10-2017, 06:50 AM
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It seems people are still unaware of how dangerous these stags can behttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...otos-deer.html
24-10-2017, 11:55 PM
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It's a fantastic place and well worth a visit.I wonder if your stag is one of these from our visit in 2015, although with my wealth of ignorance it is probably a completely different breed of deer.
I hope this fellow remembered to pay and display.
I would like to point out that these pics were taken from a safe distance using a zoom lens.
25-10-2017, 12:08 AM
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Re: Deer at Wollaton Park
Originally Posted by Muddy
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Fallow deer are smaller .The deer in my photos and link are Red Deer which are the largest of the all the deer species in the uk and are notoriously aggressive during the rutting season.
25-10-2017, 12:18 AM
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There are fallow deer at Woolaton too.I would image they move the stags in the rut ( now) yet these pictures taken a few days back see tourists dangerously near them.
http://www.nottinghampost.com/news/n...-taking-657829
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