Deer
We back onto a wood and all winter we have had three young deer visiting the garden. One young buck And two young does. Sometimes the little buck sleeps in the garden. One of the does will take bread from my hand if it is quiet. They have turned a small
area of grass into a mud patch but no problem I just reseeded it. We haven't seen them for about six weeks but this morning I came down to find they have eaten all my bluebells, white ones, pink ones and blue. Yesterday the garden was covered in them and looked
beautiful with them, today only five or six left. Ungrateful little beasts, no respect!
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Deer are unfortunately a bit of problem for nature conservation as they love eating wildflowers, tree saplings in woodlands etc.
But, it's not the deers fault. The main issue is the lack of a natural predator, as we made wolves, lynx, beers all extinct centuries ago. If those predators were still around, deer populations would be kept in check and our habitats would thrive without
us having to intervene.That's why I think it's very exciting to hear about rewilding of beavers, lynx and boar in the UK. Then you'd get to keep your lovely bluebells!
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I think it could be "Quite Entertaining" for a couple of dogs being walked, quite legitimately & not doing any harm, to suddenly find themselves confronted by a lynx or two, or even, Heaven forfend, a male wild boar !! Some years ago I saw one of the T.V. programmes, done by a Sikh ** version of David Attenborough, following a family of tigers in India . They arrived at a waterhole where the piglets were drinking. The tiger saw them and was picking its 'supper' not realising the male boar was on guard duty a few bushes away. The tiger charged, but the boar charged faster & sank its tusks into the tigers flanks leaving a very startled & hurt tiger with about eight inches of flesh hanging loose & getting caught in the scrubby bushes when it fled !!
Whatever the rights & wrongs of "Reintroduction" one thing is certain Wild Boar are nice shy creatures and bloody minded when the need arises.
** I forget, to my eternal shame, the gentleman's name but he is a regular on programmes following tiger families in the Sub--continent.
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It's funny. Quite a few years ago my wife and I went for a walk around a lake with overgrown vegetation in some parts and a campsite adjacent, this being in France. We were hissed at by a polecat which was up a tree, saw at least 3 Snakes quite close up
but only when a wild boar made its presence felt from about 20 feet away in the reeds did we feel worried.I was alright though because I can outrun Mrs. WN.
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