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Image Taken on 11 Feb 2025 at 15:37    Image of day on 17 Mar 2025

At about the same time the next day probably the same Deer appears to be standing in the flooded ditch enjoying a drink of the quite disgustingly muddy water.


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Image Taken on 16 Feb 2023 at 14:41    Image of day on 18 Mar 2023

The regular male Reeves' Muntjac Deer eats some Blackberry leaves, somehow avoiding, or resistant to, the thorns.


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Image Taken on 09 Apr 2022 at 09:49    Image of day on 10 May 2022

A couple of minutes later the male Reeves' Muntjac Deer is eating twigs on a hawthorn bush.


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Image Taken on 27 Oct 2018 at 05:39    Image of day on 16 Dec 2018

Another apple vanishes - this time in a Male Reeve's Muntjac Deer.
It looks like as a single mouthful that he subsequently chewed on for a couple of minutes.


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Image Taken on 09 Oct 2021 at 06:02    Image of day on 27 Nov 2021

At around the same time next day this male Reeve's Muntjac Deer has spotted this litter of leafy twigs and stops off to eat some.


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Image Taken on 02 Apr 2022 at 16:16    Image of day on 02 May 2022

This male Reeves' Muntjac Deer comes into the site and starts with a forage in the ditch.


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Image Taken on 21 Jul 2023 at 14:58    Image of day on 24 Sep 2023

We see this male Reeves' Muntjac Deer most nights at one or more Trail cameras. Here, unusually in mid-afternoon, he enters at the south hedge gap and soon starts rubbing his most likely itchy 'velvet' over his antlers on the ground.


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Image Taken on 24 Jan 2024 at 14:23    Image of day on 20 Feb 2024

A study of the male Deer feeding at the Meadow site.


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Image Taken on 23 Feb 2022 at 08:36    Image of day on 24 Mar 2022

4 hours later, the sun has risen as this male Reeves' Muntjac Deer, with fully emerged antlers, stops by for a feed. There seems to be a scar at the top of his left front leg.


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Image Taken on 16 Feb 2025 at 13:35    Image of day on 24 Mar 2025

Right outside the study window this male Reeves' Muntjac Deer samples the weeds in a huge pot left unkempt in the Winter.


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Image Taken on 04 Nov 2021 at 12:17    Image of day on 14 Dec 2021

The male Reeve's Muntjac Deer follows the Deer equivalent of Chanel No 5? The male Deer must catch the moment that the female is receptive to mating.


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Image Taken on 22 May 2026 at 16:32    Image of day on 01 Jul 2026

Next day the male continues to assiduously follow the female.


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Image Taken on 20 Oct 2019 at 17:52    Image of day on 07 Dec 2019

A few minutes before sunset - if the sun had been visible anyway - this male Reeve's Muntjac Deer was wandering quietly down the hedge to our east foraging as he went. Standing still behind our hedge he didn't spot the photographer.


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Image Taken on 02 Jan 2023 at 10:00    Image of day on 22 Jan 2023

A mid-morning sighting of a male Reeves' Muntjac Deer quietly foraging along the Bridleway to our north. He must have been pretty intent on feeding not to notice us stopping for these pics and then passing some 50m away.


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Image Taken on 20 Apr 2023 at 14:59    Image of day on 11 Jun 2023

This male Reeves' Muntjac deer spent 5 minutes foraging at the end of the orchard. To left his is pushing his way into a Bramble (Blackberry) bush to reach some attractive morsel.


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Image Taken on 20 Apr 2024 at 15:39    Image of day on 19 May 2024

The male Reeves' Muntjac Deer spends a while foraging the wide assortment of 'weeds' near the south hedge gap.


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Image Taken on 26 Nov 2022 at 13:31    Image of day on 27 Dec 2022

The male Reeves' Muntjac Deer (long antlers) spends a few minutes foraging on the side of Round Mound.


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Image Taken on 11 Jan 2023 at 00:05    Image of day on 01 Feb 2023

MIDNIGHT! - time for the current male Reeves' Muntjac Deer to enter our patch and continue his nightly forage.


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Image Taken on 04 May 2024 at 15:22    Image of day on 30 May 2024

The male Reeves' Muntjac Deer tending his fur.


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Image Taken on 11 Jul 2025 at 18:53    Image of day on 29 Aug 2025

The male Reeves' Muntjac Deer stops for a brief groom.
The fur around his antlers is deteriorating prior to being shed.


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