and my finger was on the trigger, but I
not killing him, and left him undisturbed.
Js to study than the common Roe when
laturalist among the young plantations in
:ening from their long sleep. In summer,
other seasons. You must be out early
, but with the coming of the lush grass
3 seem to put aside their fears and to come
ay sit watching a likely hillside, when a
a Roe nibbling the tender shoots. Slowly
ss the biish tangle and comes into view,
and glistening horns. He licks his legs,
ay the flies, stretches himself with arched
** of some peat hag. For two hours he
nating in peaceful content. At times he
this season if a man passes along a road or forest
still and relies on his own invisibility in the dappling
some strange sound is heard, or enemy seen for a
it of, he will stand and stamp and bark at intervals.
V his suspicions. In June and July the parasitic flies
may see him emerge from cover and rush hither and
iis enemies. He snorts and stamps, but it is of no
ishes blindly back to cover.
on must be up before daylight if you wish to see Roe,
in the rutting season you mi
for during the heat of an August
the great fir woods, and there yot
few and far between; for the pr
not felt by the Roe, which brows«
of the thickets.
day they remain hidden. In winter they take to
ices of study, except as a sportsman, are
s that drive other Deer into the open are
birch shoots and other foods in the heart