Once again, it’s a Saturday afternoon and I'm standing in the copse waiting for the Goldcrests to show themselves from behind the laurel leaves - unobligingly, they never did, their chirps suggested that they were discussing my presence. After about 10 minutes of unsuccessful Goldcrest bingo, this young roe deer ran right up to me, almost within touching distance, he did not appear to see me and I dare not move for fear of scaring him. After a few seconds he slowly moved away and circled around the Goldcrest's laurel tree.
I thought I had missed the opportunity, however unlike the Goldcrests, he came back into clear view a few just a few meters further away. Not quite believing my luck, I slowly raised the camera and snapped the first picture of him feeding (tongue out); on hearing the click of camera shutter, he turned to look in my direction, I quickly snapped the second picture, and as soon as he heard the second click, he took off at pace. Had the camera been set to continuous high-speed mode, who knows what additional frames may have been captured!
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