St Dominic, Tamar valley: Woken at dawn by the sound of a cock pheasant's crowing call and vigorous wing flapping, I look down on three roeDeer roam through the garden most nights, leaving their prints and grazing choice leaves of daylilies, Hemerocallis, among swathes of poisonous monkshood. The first sighting was at dusk, when two bounded downhill through shadowy fruit trees, white rumps prominent in the fading light. More recently, woken at dawn by the sound of a cock pheasant's crowing call and vigorous wing flapping, I look down on three roe, wandering beneath the fading blooms of magnolia before heading towards dense cover in the Radland valley.This morning, in broad daylight, when the excitable songs of summer-visiting chiffchaff and blackcap outdo those of resident birds whose earlier chorus has subsided, two emboldened deer stroll nearby; they skirt the fruit cage, pass under clusters of blossom on the Burcombe cherry and tread daintily among cowslips and false oxlips, seeded from plugs planted in the grass 15 years ago. Continue reading...
Country diary: wandering deer share our self-isolation enclave
16. dubna 2020 10:00
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Celý článek: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/apr/16/country-diary-wandering-deer-share-our-self-isolation-enclave
Zdroj: The Guardian