Photo white Deer in Dunham Massey

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I am always thrilled to come across woodland deer and deer in public parks. Sometimes they can be seen in the distance but getting close enough to get photographs is tricky as they retreat and avoid contact. I remember a school trip to Tatton Park in Cheshire ended when our accompanying teacher almost got arrested. He found two matching shed deer antlers and decided they would look nice on the wall in his school office. He carried them round quite openly and freely through the remaining trip time, but as we were leaving, park officials demanded that he come to their office. He was grilled for thirty minutes to make sure he hadn’t killed the deer to take the antlers as if he was a poacher and then had to surrender the antlers as they were designated a park property and told that it would amount to theft if he tried to take them. They finally let him go, antler’s confiscated. The photo is of a White deer I saw in Dunham Massey Park, near Altrincham, Cheshire, England. The deer here are not shy at all, and not only wander around the crowd, hoping for food (despite notices telling people not to feed them), they often walk up and nudge or shove you if they think you haven’t given them your attention. They are quite beautiful creatures. Arthur Chappell