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What to expect from your Deer Stalking month by month. Enter your email address below to receive the Almanac:
The 1st April represents a fundamental shift in the UK, with the females of five of the UK’s six species of deer now protected for seven months until the 1st November, thereby affording them time to raise their young.
My tip for the coming month is to change your routine and schedule your stalking for alternative times of the day.
This time last year I was expressing some concern about how the UK’s deer population was fairing amidst a number of storms that had ravaged much of the UK and in particular Scotland.
To quote the terribly un-pc verse of a song from the chaps at Monty Python: “I like Chinese, I like Chinese, they only come up to your knees”, indeed it is true, as is the later verse: “I like Chinese, their food is guaranteed to please” which it does.
November this year is looking as though it may be somewhat of an anomaly. Firstly because of the unseasonably mild start to the autumn and secondly because of a ‘super moon’, no I correct myself, an ‘extra-super moon’ no less.
This October with the Fallow Rut about to kick off, the Capreolus Club secures a long term lease at the historic Epping Forest.
There are changes afoot in September, the sun arcs a little lower across the sky and there is a freshness to the air, that breathes the promise of autumn.
As Benjamin Franklin once famously said: “By failing to prepare you are preparing to fail” When the perfect opportunity presents itself will you be ready?
