Location: Meet at Blackwater Arboretum car park on Rhinefield Ornamental Drive, SU 267,046. To find this drive from Lyndhurst towards Christchurch on the A35. After about 2 ½ miles you come to a cross roads. Turn left signed to Rhinefield and Brockenhurst. The car park is the first one on the left after about 1 mile.
Date and time: 2pm-5pm Thursday 23 October.
A walk to see Fallow Deer in Queens Meadow where they rut at this time.
This area of the Forest is full of deer in autumn. We walk through woodland from the car park where we may see Roe Deer. Then we walk over an area of heath where Red Deer are often seen before coming to the grassy Queens Meadow where the Fallow Deer gather for their rut.
The Fallow Deer call is different, more of a pig like grunt than the Red's belching! However there can be just as much action with the males fighting over females.
Join us to see what we can see and to have an enjoyable afternoon stroll in this part of the Forest. Birds we may see in this area include Hawfinch and Raven.
There are toilets at the car park.
How to book: Please book in advance by contacting Project Fred on 01425 673321 or by emailing project.fred@virgin.net.
Cost: £6.
Length of walk: Medium, about 3 kms on level ground that may be wet in places.
What to bring: Binoculars if you have them.
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