Muntjac Deer on Peter's Field
Photos: 6 December 2024
Text: 23 May 2025
Morning
It was a Friday and I suspect I had only just opened the curtains in the bedroom when I took the first two photographs.
I was a clear morning and at 08:57 I took this photo of a male and female Muntjac on our neighbour's field
A minute later I had realised that it was a family group I was watching, not just a pair. I think this was the first time, this year, that I had photographed three Muntjac together.
Afternoon
We would have been having lunch as it was 13:07 when we saw a Muntjac on Peter's Field again. This time I got several shots of what may have been the youngster seen in the morning.
No horns, so not an adult male!
A minute after the first sighting I get in another shot of the same animal in the "orchard" area of our neighbour's land.
By 13:26 the Muntjac had moved into more open ground, still without others, so probably not part of the group seen in the morning.
Lone Swan Arrives in the Lake
All the shots below were taken within a couple of minutes, between 14:13 and 14:14. Friday is one of the days we sometimes continue to watch TV after the lunchtime news, so that is probably how we managed to be in the lounge to spot this arrival.
I spot the swan emerging from the boundary dyke and manage to pick up the camera before it crosses the path.
He (as I believe it is) comes straight over the path without pausing.
He reaches the bank and...
... plunges straight in.
Within a minute he's across to the other side and proceeds past our Jeremy Fisher model to the area behind the neighbouring holiday cottages.
