What a privilege.

What a privilege.

Yesterday I had the great privilege of getting up close to two wonderful red deer stags here in the New Forest National Park.  If you know how to behave around them and allow them to come to you, you will get beautiful views.  Both these stags walked straight towards me until they were so close they didn’t fit in the lens any more.  The rutting season is just getting going so these stags are wandering round looking for females.  To illustrate how dangerous the fighting can be, take a close look at the big stag in the first photo and you will see he is blind in his left eye.