ilex is a sweetie and likes a cuddle (although he does not like vets),i think i met whisky as a baby but if he is like his dad he will also be a charmer.
Barefoot Andrew Downsizer Moderator
Joined: 21 Mar 2007 Posts: 22780 Location: In the 17th century
Posted: Tue Aug 04, 15 8:41 pm Post subject:
Given that we now live on a dairy farm, I must join in this thread soon.
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Thanks for that Rob. Roe deer are very pretty aren't they. They can be quite destructive, but not as bad as other species of deer. We quite often see them going through the woods, and if you are careful you can get quite close.
Last year I managed to get within about 8ft of one at Allerthorpe common, and I did have the camera with me, but I didn't manage to get a decent picture because of the vegetation and the camera lens spooked it. With a hide and some time you could get some fantastic photos but I'm usually just carrying the camera with me as I go about my day, so don't often have time to linger.
the ones sundozing in the long salad of field 5 were even more surprised than me when i stepped among them but even if i had a camera best i might have got was the odd bum bouncing off into the distance.
i recon the pir cam things are ideal for deer (or a long lens for the chosen snaps)
I don't usually carry a camera, but sometimes stalk a deer just to see how close I can get. I try to get close but not spook them, so that they just wander off slowly. Our deer don't seem to be particularly bothered by vehicles either, so if you sit in a stopped vehicle they will come fairly close.
Picturesque. Are they real gipsies or just a family that likes a gipsy caravan?
roma or romany is the polite term (nowt to do with rumania)
the roma language has quite a bit in common with bronze age sanskrit which is probably cos that is what they were speaking when they started wandering.
the gypsy thing came about in the mid to late middle ages as quite a few folk had passed along north africa via egypt and up into spain before entering europe .
there has been a tendency to reclaim the name gypsy (much like reclaiming the n word)as a badge of heritage and as a badge of difference from both irish and"new age"travelers but my very close chums have always preferred i am roma/ we (or they) are romany
The main thing is to distinguish them from the 'new age' travellers and the plague of Irish wanderers we get here in the summer. We have had less trouble lately since the police have been a bit more strict about helping to move them on. As people they have a right to stay somewhere, but unfortunately they don't consider other peoples rights and feelings. They usually leave a tremendous mess as well.
In the New Forest there were also a group whose name sounds like Kyia, but I don't know the spelling of it. They lived as nomads in the Forest in huts, bender type, and did all sorts of woodland work. They were forcibly housed in the 1950s I believe, which wasn't good for some of them as they were used to being out in the open and not with other people.