Bangs for the bucks
The rut is probably the best part of the roe deer year, and ours started to smoulder around 12 July. It rapidly gained in intensity until it was all but out of control by the first and second week of August. It then usually fizzles out, though I have known it to stop suddenly, due to who knows what. We do know that the weather has an effect but, in reality, the action is most likely still taking place, it is just going on in cover and unseen.
Once it has settled down the bucks will not be around as much. They would have gone through a number
