Deer oh deer

Another day, another site to explore with Turtle and Seahorse on our seemingly never-ending quest to find 26 different species of British mammal.  This time we headed along the Mesopotamia way towards University Park. It was taking us quite a while, given that two-year old Seahorse decided that she had no intention of sitting in the buggy and instead insisted on pushing it - cue a rather lengthy pin-ball wizard style wander along the path. With Dad in charge this gave me a chance to check out obvious animal crossings over and through the wet ditch to one side into the field. I saw some beautiful roe deer prints that were really obvious in the mud, and looking up spied a small group of deer.

 This at least gave us a reason to distract Seahorse from steering the buggy into the ditch and she watched them for a good few minutes - no mean feat for an active toddler!  Turtle was just catching us up at this point (she was busy discussing the meaning of life and interesting smells with the dog), and her excited shouts at the fact there was a baby deer with them soon encouraged the herd to head off into thicker cover.

British mammal tally: 8

Learn more about roe deer here

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