Sunday 7 February 2010

One Less Twin


One Less Twin, originally uploaded by julian sawyer.

Sat just thirty feet from his brother, this young Roe deer is no longer a twin. For the last nine months they were inseperable. It is sometimes hard enough to accept when nature controls such a small population, but when a death is not a natural event, I really struggle.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I look at your photos every day and was really sad to read this. I'm presuming his brother was shot or hit by a car. Beautiful photo. I'm not sure if you ever add any of your photos to Flickr, but if you do please feel free to add them to our Flickr group at www.flickr.com/groups/dorsetwildlifetrust I know that our members would love to see them.

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