Studley Royal

 A trip to Ripon and Studley Royal Deer Park for the Red Deer rut. We was probably about a week too early because for all the deer were bellowing, they were not rutting. Still an enjoyable day out.

One of the big stags.

Some Stags were bellowing but not rutting.

There were a few about.

Female.

Female with a Jackdaw on its head.

A couple of the younger Stags were practising.

One of them was even urinating on itself.

Another Stag having a drink.

Another female.

A young one.

Along the river was a Little Egret.

And also, another Stag.

Studley Royal

My wife and I decided to have another trip to Studley Royal to try and get to see the Red Deer rutting. We did see some of what I would call practice rutting by some of the males but not the real full-on thing that we were hoping for. I think most of the images speak for themselves so notmanywords. Once again, a couple of the images are a bit graphic so do not look if you are sensitive. 

Not something you see every day.

We saw this on the way back to the car.