Frankly deer, I don’t give a damn

WORK found me in Co Wicklow for a couple of days recently and I was surprised by the number of deer I saw.

The weather was cold and frosty at the time and I think this pushed the animals down from the higher ground, some of which was snow covered, into the more sheltered valley floors.

Many of them looked like red deer but when I checked it out, I found this was unlikely. It’s believed that all, or practically all, the deer in Wicklow are either sikas or red/sika hybrids.