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Original PaulE · Mar 20, 2006

while driving near holbrook in suffolk yesterday down a small country lane near alton water reservoir i saw a large herd of what i think were fallow deer by large i mean well over 40 animals they didn't seem to be fenced in, in any way i have seen roe deer in this area and muntjac but i didn't realise there were fallow deer, does anyone know anything about them if they are common in this area or if they weren't fallow what else they could be

saluki · Mar 21, 2006

PaulE said:
while driving near holbrook in suffolk yesterday down a small country lane near alton water reservoir i saw a large herd of what i think were fallow deer by large i mean well over 40 animals they didn't seem to be fenced in, in any way i have seen roe deer in this area and muntjac but i didn't realise there were fallow deer, does anyone know anything about them if they are common in this area or if they weren't fallow what else they could be

Only Red and Fallow (both of which you have in Suffolk I believe) will really gather in herds, though Sika can sometimes gather in small groups, and Roe around the Salisbury Plain area have been seen in groups of up to fourteen individuals. I'd guess the animals you saw were Fallow Deer. Red Deer can be extremely secretive for such a huge animal, populations can live in an area with very few people knowing about them.

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