Finding sanctuary
A doe and her kid peer around watchfully on an early July morning, while foraging in a city cemetery in Wiltshire. The burial grounds pictured in this portfolio all stand on the edge of woodland, providing ideal habitat for roe – one of Britain’s only two truly native deer species, along with red – allowing them to retreat into the shadows of the surrounding trees if disturbed.
Roe deer feature on Wild Isles, on air and iPlayer from early spring
Nursing times
Young twins suckle their mother,