14/01/2022
Red Deer Stag at Tatton Park in very moody conditions.
Last Friday I had the absolute pleasure in visiting my first 'deer park'- Tatton Park.
I have only ever been around wild deer before so to be around so many, more tame animals was incredible, but very different for me.
As soon as my friend and I approached the area where the deer were congregating, we had a rather large red stag- very much like this one- come sauntering over to us, it held its head down low, and I will admit I was a little nervous as its antlers were HUGE, and nuzzled my hand which was down to my side. I got to stroke it's nose for a few seconds before it turned its head and nearly wiped my friend clean out with those massive antlers!
I couldn't get over how different the park deer are, walking so close by to us and not being bothered one bit.
It was also so interesting to see red deer again as I haven't seen one since I was a child. And then to see them up close to fallow deer and to be able to see the physical differences in size, stature, and behaviour was very interesting too.
The weather was absolutely horrendous, snow, hail, sleet, strong winds and even thunder and lightning(!) I started to turn blue at one point- making me look like a co**se apparently 🥶- it was that cold!
