Idiot!

I could just hear that alpha doe addressing the stag like that. "As if you think that bracken makes your antlers any bigger!" Even for deer, it's all about size.

The weather was direfully grim but Basil and I went for a walk in Bradgate Park where the deer were roaming. Seems as if the stags had got their harems into line. This stag had five in his retinue.

Don't look too closely at this photo. Wasn't holding my camera too steady today, possibly because I was also having to hold Basil on his lead.