Herds of deer regularly graze at dawn and dusk in the fields around our garden. When I walk in the woods surrounding our rural valley in West Sussex I get glimpses of them through the trees. Often I wonder where do they rest? This week my question was answered when I saw all these does ‘lying up’ in a field next to us. I found out that when deer rest between feeding it’s called ‘lying up.’
Perhaps some of them are pregnant. In the Autumn our valley echoed every night with the roars of stags during the rutting season. The clashing of antlers sounded like sword fights in the dark. Early last summer we had fawns playing among the wild flowers next to our fence. So I’m hoping that these does were not just lying up but resting because there will soon be little ones running by our garden fence.
Hi Kriss, how beautiful. I grew up in Devon and one highlight was passing Powderham castle on the train and seeing the deer grazing and lying up in the fields. It must be amazing having it on your doorstep.
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It’s magical I must admit!
Gorgeous photo. It must be so lovely to see deer every day. Hope you get to see some fawns soon!
I do hope so as the small meadow with a shallow stream and hedgerow by our one fence last summer turned into the local deer playpen!
So lovely. We used to live next door to Bushy Park in South West London and the deer were sometimes quite hard to spot lying down until you were super close and that usually made us jump! 😀
You must have crept up on these very quietly for them still to be resting their unaware of your presence so beautiful to see
I didn’t disturb them because I captured the deer resting right from our back deck!
You are so lucky to have this amazing natural spectacle on your doorstep, let’s hope they are indeed resting before producing lots of gorgeous fawns.
It’s wonderful especially as my daughter can watch the fawns right from her bedroom window!
I love watching deer in the field. They always look so calm and peaceful.
Thank you for linking up
Thank you Darren
This is a beautiful image – I really look forward to seeing those babies 🙂 #MySundayPhoto
So nice to see 🙂 Looking forward to cooing over photos of the fawns, squeeeeee!
How beautiful! What an incredible photograph. I can’t wait to see pictures of the new additions to the deer herd.
Thank you Izzie.
Its like you are living in dreamland! Deer at your backyard is just the most amazing thing ever! #MySundayPhoto
how marvellous is that! they are just so cute lying there. a wonderful shot and how lucky are you to be able to see them.:)