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October 2021

I was luck enough to go to Bradgate Park, near Leicester to photograph deer on a workshop with Nature's Images.  It was dark when we met at 6.30am, hoping for the beautiful light of sunrise.  That was not to be but we had a lovely day watching fallow deer and red deer.

The fallow deer were in groups and there were 2 bucks who were having a tussle - they started by "parallel walking" which is a challenge:

 

Bradgate Park-8285Bradgate Park-8285  Then after a little while they locked horns:

Bradgate Park-8306Bradgate Park-8306 It was impossible to work out who won, but one of them said it was him:

 

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