Aldridge Hill -deer

Late afternoon 2nd Nov Maggie Gallacher and I did a circular walk starting at Black Knowle caravan club site via Bolderford Bridge and turned left towards Queens Bower and on to the viewing field where you join the gravel track. The field yielded a fabulous view of around 50 deer, amongst which were 6 stags with large antlers, one of which had only one antler. After a while we took the gravel track around a bend with an enclosure gate in front of us. We saw something white in amongst the ferns and bushes and on focusing the binoculars discovered we were indeed lucky enough to see a WHITE femail with another group of femails, young and a stag - about 20 in this group.
How lucky we thought, but better was to come. We went through the gate and took the next grass pathway to the left and were just getting over a style when Maggie noticed, and we could not believe this, a WHITE STAG grazing on the heath all by himself. He saw us and fixed his gaze on us, - quite frightening - he stared at us for what seemed like ages and then proudly walked into the woodland. As we walked across the open area to Aldridge Hill Cottage it was getting dusk and merging into the undergrowth were other groups of 10 to 15 deer. We just couldnt believe how eventful our afternoon had been.