Isabel Hardman Isabel Hardman

Mad about the beast

The deer-rutting season has brought the camera crowd out in force. But like the twitchers, they threaten what they covet

issue 27 October 2018

Richmond Park is an eerie place at this time of year. It’s not just that it’s the deer rutting season, when huge stags fight over their harems, charging heavily about the misty grassland and bellowing as they go. It’s also the herds of photographers looming out of that mist, as strange as the prehistoric cries of the deer.

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