I was walking along one of the quieter roads in the locality on my daily walk today when I saw six magpies in the branches of a medium sized leafless Oak tree. I quickly raised my mobile phone to take a picture. Suddenly there was a movement of another creature right in front of me, I saw a brown four-legged creature walking slowly from behind a nearby tree. My first thought was what breed of dog is that? I realised it was a muntjac deer and promptly snapped a few photographs. The deer hopped over a low wall and raced off along the hedgerow into a nearby field. I never did get my photo of the magpies.

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