The Roe Corner Roe Deer

On our way down to the village, as we approach Roe Corner, the plantation of Scots pines is cut by an area of land cleared by the electricity board to prevent trees falling on their power line. This area is now dominated by dead bracken fronds, and it is amongst these that we are seeing the three Roe Corner roe deer mentioned in recent posts.

One of them is a buck. He seems to be the more nervous of the three as, when we walk past the clearing, he breaks cover first, and heads up the hill away from us, followed shortly after by....

....the two does, one slightly larger than the other.

We're seeing the trio fairly frequently now, frequently enough to conclude that we're meeting them on their way from early morning grazing in a field the other side of Roe Corner to the thicker and less human-visited forestry higher on the slopes of Bheinn Bhraggie, where they spend most of their daylight hours. This seems a logical organisation of their day as the path through Roe Corner becomes increasingly busy with humans and their - often out-of-control - dogs.

We saw the deer again this morning. Since we're actively looking for them we now approach Roe Corner very quietly, with the result that the two does were quite close to us when they finally ran up the hill after the buck. With a bit of luck they'll become more and more accustomed to us, and will perhaps allow us to approach increasingly close.