She looks a bit tasty!

I have been snowed under with work for the last few months and, frustratingly, haven't had the time to get out to take any photographs. But this has changed recently and I am able to go down to my local patch again.

I had gone out early in the morning to do some bird watching, but a rather sharp thunderstorm curtailed my plans and I made a hasty retreat home to take solace in some coffee and listened to my local radio.

The poor weather finally cleared, so I had an early lunch and went back down to the Gaywood Valley in Kings Lynn for an afternoon of some botany, bee identification and a butterfly transect that I have recently managed to set up.

As I was walking to where I wanted to be, I spotted these muntjac just up ahead of me, so I knelt down and started to take some photos. They weren't too bothered by my presence and slowly came a bit closer. The female was concentrating mostly on feeding, but the male definately had other ideas - seemingly much to the females annoyance who kept walking away from his attempts.

I think they would have come even closer to my position, but something somewhere spooked them, and they quickly disappeared into the undergrowth.