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The deer are frequent visitors very close to the house at The Ottery, attracted to graze on the open grassy areas and unfortunately on the plants and young trees we are try to grow. We awake some mornings to look straight out at deer, but they are easily spooked and bound away, showing thier characteristic white tails.
While working on the gazebo in September 2017 I thought I noticed a dog swimming near the big island. It turned out to be a fawn swimming from there over to our point, with a couple of kayakers shadowing it. When it reached land, right at the point near me, it clambered quickly up the slope towards the house. It seemed too young for the time of year, still had its fawn spots and had no visible mother. I feared that it would not survive long and we would find a carcass on our land. But the next day we spotted it on our picnic area close to the house where I was able to take these photos. After that we never saw it again.
Out in the canoe one afternoon we wondered what was in the water ahead; it was this fawn, swimming strongly without any parent in sight.