A day out

[burnie]

Since covid I have taken to filming wildlife with a movie camera rather than just still photos, we went to the Ski slopes in Glen Shee the other day, not to go skiing I hasten to add, but to see the wildlife. Well the snow had all gone, this weather, three days ago the road was shut due to drifting snow. This is a short clip from a longer film I put on youtube
https://flic.kr/p/2qFsR9d

You can have a look at the various films and photos I have done, mostly wildlife with a bit of fishing or steam trains

[Snoop Puss]

I can't view the clip, burnie, just see it as a still image. Some kind of tech failure, as I can see the play button. But even so, it's clear that must have been an amazing day, absolutely amazing! I would never have expected to see so many all in the one place.

If you didn't mind, would you be able to post a link to the longer YouTube film? Be great to see them in motion.

[Florence Fennel]

Brilliant Burnie

[burnie]

Youtube slightly longer film
https://youtu.be/Wtk4d8uZC2o

[Snoop Puss]

Thanks, burnie. Really enjoyed watching that. Amazing to see. Nice to have your informative commentary too. Do you often see that many together?

[burnie]

Occasionally, this time of year the Stags can be in herds of two or three hundred, funny really because a couple of months ago they were trying to kill each other in the Rutt. It is now Hind hunting season, so they have scattered and the Stags will stick around together until the end of the summer.

[Snoop Puss]

^I didn't know stags did that. I thought they were quite solitary, as that's how you see them in films and the like.

[burnie]

The groups will disperse as much as anything to spread out to find food, smaller groups, maybe four or five, then when the weather changes, then the dominant stags start looking for the hinds and forming their breeding hareems, that's when the roaring starts and the fighting begins. I have tried for years to film the rutt, but getting close is both difficult and a bit dangerous, there was a time when I could run fast if a stag came charging after me, but not so sure now lol.

[Snoop Puss]

Outrunning a stag seems an optimistic proposition, burnie!