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Mammals - The Fallow Deer

First seen on Monday 7th January 2019 at Croome

Fallow Deer are larger than Roe Deer, but smaller than Red deer. Their coats do vary in colour, but mostly they are tan with white spots, which fade in the winter. This one is quite dark, as it was seen in January. He is a large stag and he was with five other deer, but I could only glimpse them through trees and hedgerow. They were running from something over the hill (the stag went back for another look).

Fallow deer have palmate antlers (hand-like, with large flat areas). The other way to identify them is that they have a black horseshoe mark on their white rump, with a dark tail - all identification very clear in these photos...