It was a dreary dawn here in west Cornwall but I decided to look out for the local Roe Deer at Longrock before heading off westwards along the south coast,
Earlier in the summer I had been watching a pregnant Doe in this area but it seemed to disappear during mid June around the time that her kid should be born.
Weeks of occasional watching revealed nothing but today, Two months later ! Here was the doe and her two month old kid out grazing in the field,
They were four hundred metres from me and light levels required slow camera shutter speed and high ISO but I was so delighted to see them, Took on the challenge and did the best I could to record the sighting
They were quite relaxed until the doe picked up on my shutter firing while taking the image above and from that moment after looking around she started to slowly guide the kid back towards the hedgerow.
The doe spent a few minutes browsing the hedgerow with the kid tagging along behind and then following taking the image below they just melted out of sight through the undergrowth into the woodland behind before the sun had even risen.
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