There are five new photographs on the Photo page, starting from number one. Getting short of photographs again. I think that I may have deleted a few by mistake this morning.
Two screen shot of the Red Deer Stag that visited the valley yesterday afternoon. Marie.
A scene near Inverary Castle. Lindsay.
This weather has reminded me of last years Womad Music Festival, which was held at Malmesbury Wiltshire, these photos were taken on 27th July.
Australian Curlew. Elsie.
If you look at the two screen shots that Marie sent in of the Stag that was in the valley yesterday afternoon, I reckon that looking at the pictures full on and from the side there are six points/ tips on each antler, making him a Royal Stag. It was definitely a Royal Stag at the Rut last Autumn. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was the same one. There was a younger Stag with him yesterday that reminded me of the youngster that was hanging about at the Rut. Stags can live for about twenty years. The older they get the more points or tip they will have. Some have been known to have twenty. Twelve tips is a Royal Stag and tend to be called that even if they have more. A Stag with fourteen points/ tips is a Imperial Stag. Sixteen would make him a Monarch, hence the well know painting Monarch of the Glen. I don’t know what they would call a Stag with twenty Points. When we had the large herd visiting the farm a few years back, I was sure that I saw an Imperial.
We had a small flock of Geese on the lake yesterday morning. As we were feeding the Horses in the morning we heard them come in. The pair that we hope will nest must have already been on the Lake, for when I put the Lake camera on they were trying as hard as they could to get the five intruder to fly away. Trouble was that the five were all over the place making it difficult for them to choose which one to start attacking. I dont know how it finished. By the time I went to fill the Bird Feeders all had gone.