There was a buzzard soaring above us while we worked today; lovely to see them, as we usually only hear them because of the tree cover in the woods. Son thought he saw a rabbit on the track as we went back into the woods; unusual as we haven't seen any for ages. Sadly they all got various nasty rabbit diseases some time ago. Plenty of hares though.
On the way into the place we were cutting birch, the stalker stopped us to find out where we were working. He was culling the fallow deer. The estate culls about 300 a year and that keeps the populations stable, so there are a lot of deer on the estate. Glad to say we only have roe and muntjac which at least don't herd like fallow deer. A herd of fallow will strip and area bare overnight if they get into young growth.
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