Carl Mckie

May 20, 20231 min

Roe deer in an Oxfordshire meadow, roe buck feeding amongst buttercups

Updated: Jul 2, 2023

I had been watching this meadow in Oxfordshire over a period of time, and periodicaly taking pictures. The roe deer are here most days in the early morning, before dog walkers and joggers disturb them- in the past I have tried to photograph them in the buttercups,but the period where there is a mass of flowering plants seems very short, and even with a few buttercups it makes for a nice image, this mid May morning it was literaly a wash of yellow and so we managed to get ,the roe deer buck feeding in the wildflower meadow.

Roe deer in an Oxfordshire meadow, filled with buttercups- you dont get long to photograph them with all the flowers in bloom, these buttercups where only fully flowering for two/three weeks, and then when you take out dark overcast mornings, heavy rain,not much time left.

Roe buck in wildflower meadow

Roe buck in Oxfordshire meadow

Roe buck feeding amongst buttercups

Roe buck feeding amongst buttercups

Roe buck feeding amongst buttercups in an Oxfordshire meadow

Roe buck feeding amongst buttercups in an Oxfordshire meadow