On my way to work this morning there was a dead deer in the middle of the road. Ouch that must have done some damage. They are becoming more of a common site on the roads around these parts. It something to keep in mind when on them open country roads.

Wooly

 

thats strange me too down in kent

 

Venison for dinner is it then Wooly?

 

my one looked like it was already sausages

 

Siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiirrrrr-lightly off topic here - but - I was fishing last year and I saw a dead Canadian goose near the lake.

Thought nothing of it, next morning, I awake, out of my bivvy (tent) and look at the lake, theres a blokes bivvy up the bank with feathers all around it.


The git had bloody picked up the goose, plucked it and fried and ate the fecker that morning



..... and you wonder why I am like `I am`.

 

Did some marshalling at a combined Fraser Nash Car club and Local club bash a few years ago down south (Cornwell I think it was) which they do on some earls private roads (he's a big car fan apparently)

Sprint track with a 500 yard start straight into a 90 right, 50 yards 90 left, 50 yards 90 right then flat out half mile to the finish I was on the straight half mile to the finish.

Kept having to radio down to the start line to tell drivers that in a dip on the straight a herd of deer weretrying to cross the track.

3 off us running round like loons trying to keep them in the woods and off the track

A ferrari came down the straight at full chat and came to a smoking halt as we failed at one point and 5 made a break for it and he had to slam on big time to miss 'um

Bet there was a an interesting smell of burning rubber and brown trousers in that cockpit

 

I've been a country boy for over 40 years but I've never developed that gene. I need my meat oven ready. I don't think it would have fitted in the boot. I could have put on my best Lincoln greens, thrown it across my shoulders and done a mean impression of Robin Hood.

Wooly

 

I have a "deer whistle" fitted to my car that apparently alerts deer to your presence and makes them more likely to freeze than to run across the road in front of you.

Bit difficult to know how well it works, but my dad has seen it have an effect when driving his car.

I still don't drive in the scottish highlands in darkness though - too risky unless you are driving an artic.

 

Here's a lesson to learn. If you're driving and you see a deer come across the road without a danger to you or the deer STOP. There are very rarely only 1 deer. Expect another 1 or 2 to follow it.

 

What the hell is a deer whistle? how does it work?