By the time you read this, the roebuck rutting season will be starting to heat up. It is always an exciting time and certainly the one time of the deer manager’s yearly cycle that can be full of surprises. So, get out there and enjoy the myriad of theatrical woodland performances.
My Greenlee deer management group is about to tackle a fresh challenge: we have been asked to control the deer population on a sprawling 3,000 acres of unexplored territory. It is a diverse landscape of open fields, copses and moorland. This ground is a blank canvas and will be a challenging new chapter in our ongoing deer management work.
Our initial exploration of the ground revealed a surprising number of deer, which on the one hand is a testament
