Roaring stags

It’s an unholy noise when it comes in the wee, small hours of a dark and windy night.

For the past few weeks we’ve had little sleep because of the stags rutting in the hills surrounding the croft, and at times clearly on the croft itself.

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One night we were tucked up in bed when it started. The deep roars were very loud, and the stag was clearly incredibly close by. Within metres of the caravan, we thought. Sadly the weak beam of the tiny torch that we had in the bedroom wasn’t powerful enough to illuminate much.

It went on for some hours. That night we didn’t get much sleep at all.

The next day we bought a much more powerful torch and set up the wildlife camera in a new position to try and capture some interesting footage.

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True to form, since doing so they’ve kept their distance, and although we can still hear them bellowing at night, it’s usually from the surrounding hillsides.

All we’ve captured on the wildlife camera is rain..