Note I am well aware of the irony of what will follow.
After I went back to the car from the Royal Magazine Fort I spotted a herd of deer that live in the park.
After I went back to the car from the Royal Magazine Fort I spotted a herd of deer that live in the park.
Lovely pictures. What kind of deer are those? They certainly aren't like the white tail deer that we have around here.
ReplyDeleteFallow deer, what we know as Bambi deer. And the are wild, at least in theory. But they've learnt that people have an unlimited supply of tasty morsels.
DeleteThey certainly aren't wild. And I have very mixed feelings about "socializing" them like that.
ReplyDeleteWhat I found shocking was the sheer number looking at the deer through a phone screen when they could watch their hands feeding them.
DeleteI am always amazed at that when I attend plays and concerts and such. So many watch large chunks of it through their cellphone screen.
DeleteThe organizers should put a video guy in and then ban all personal devises. You can't expect little Johnny belting out the yellow rose of Texas not to be filmed for the granparents.
DeleteWhile I can understand the reason and need to get up close and personal with the wild animals, I too tend to worry about the consequences of this. I’m shocked with how many are there too.
ReplyDeleteI get the need, and the sheer delight, coming up so close to real wildlife. What I found shocking was the phone intermediating the encounter.
DeleteReally really really, the phone was between the eyes of the people and the deer. Now the irony of course is that while I'm making these comments I'm somewhat guilty too.
We have deer all over the residential area where I live and I have posted photos before. As far as I know, however, we all pretty much coexist together and unless one (a deer) unwittingly steps in the path of a vehicle, there’s no personal contact. No matter how tame we might think them to be, should one of them decide otherwise, the consequences could be ugly if not tragic.
ReplyDeleteWe have wild ones here too. But these, well, aren't. Mind you they probably get wilder as the food supply in the park increases at the summer progresses.
DeleteAnd yes I was a bit worried about the weaponry myself.