Get a dog. Mine would love a deer to dare to come into the garden.
🤣 Let me introduce you to Olive, matriarch of our neighbourhood herd of 20 red deer and expert at dealing with dogs - she gives them a good kicking. She will charge humans and only veer-off if you stand your ground. If you want deer off your garden, you need a 6 foot fence - we have 2 fenced off areas, but they simply roam everywhere else - our garden separates 2 open areas and they cross through at night and early morning. You just get used to it, although Mrs DB had a few choice words when they killed her cherry tree by stripping the branches.
FLS own the land behind us, it is designated parkland and potentially an SSI due to a number of rare orchid species, but the over-grazing by deer threatens that- FLS do nothing. There are more deer than people, and a limited cull doesn’t really impact the population around the village. The price of venison is kept artificially high as it suits the producers - if there was large scale culling, the price would drop.
Does the bird act as a spotter divebiker?
They’re living in an urban garden, somewhere they should not be living, and bringing more and more with them.
I bet there were deer there before humans colonised and developed it. You can't blame them for bringing in more deer to force you out. Perhaps you could go over your boundary and seek to exterminate the blighters in the remaining space they've been allowed to live in. It would help if you had some powerful neighbours to help you, providing the necessary firepower and fending off any complaints from the authorities.
Alternatively, you're just going to have to learn to co-exist or be prepared to move when the Aboriginal Rights for Wildlife movement kicks off.
Count me in for a side of Rudolph, when you've sorted it 👍
Blackcurrant jus makes getting good rid of them much nicer
I bet there were deer there before humans colonised and developed it.
I bet there was ice there 22 thousand years ago and no deer or humans.
Aren’t they out of season?
Depends. https://bds.org.uk/information-advice/resources/deer-open-season/
Does the bird act as a spotter divebiker?
More likely this :
Do deer tell their friends about bad experiences?
Like if you consistently turn the hosepipe on them, shoot them with a mega Nerf gattling gun, throw eggs etc. ?
Once they have learned there's food in your garden they'll keep coming until
A There's somewhere better to go
B There's no food in your garden
If it helps I had venison burgers for tea 🙂
Despite they are in an urban setting I believe it could be possible to control them - if you took the shot from high to low and if your garden was large enough (and dependent on the species of deer) it could be possible. This is assuming you have someone with the right tickets etc
That being said I would look at higher fences and perhaps running an electric fence wire on top ?
Livestock energiser with single strand of electric stock fence tape. Mains powered and not massively spendy.
The dear don’t like the clicks the tape makes or the shock it gives them when they touch it.
Works a treat.
Aren’t they out of season?
I don't think that pregnancy is the problem
Set up a Christmas wonderland, this one went well... https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/heartless-fraudsters-conned-victims-festive-22920534
Could you hang a couple of their decomposing heads on your front gate, might serve as a deterrent. For everyone.
Or.
Movement sensors that play Metallica REALLY loudly.
You need a 6 foot fence to keep them out, and remember to shut gates. Every single time our gate at the bottom of the garden is left open there is a deer munching through the garden the next morning even though there is a whole field of grass the other side of the fence.
Get a dog.
If they are the standard large Scottish deer he's going to need more than one (even if it's a Bert). There will also be a need for a strong stomach and dog shampoo. I'm reliably informed that dogs will start to eat the prey before it's properly dead and Matt will need to finish the job off to avoid being charged with causing un-necessary suffering to an animal. There will also be loads of blood, mess and noise (and the neighbours will probably complain too)..
Photos?
Does the bird act as a spotter dove biker?
No, but the robins and great tits do peck the ticks off them…
Here’s Olive ‘standing guard’ right outside the back gate right now. It is a quiet spot, few passing people so it’s their day time hang out.
