Thread: Where Deer show up.

I've seen them in quite a few odd places, its surprising where they turn up and what they can tolerate..

Was driving to Queenstown from Cromwell one morning and I saw a cracker red stag cross the road in the Kawarau gorge mid afternoon not far from the Roaring Meg area. I'm not sure what he was doing but he sure was hoofing it.

Have seen multiple animals on the edge of the old golf course at the Chateau Tongariro..not to mention on the flat scrubby plain 100 m from the National Park petrol station.

The weirdest place I saw one though was in the Ngaruroro river bed between Maraekakaho and Omahu a few months ago, closer to the Omahu end. I was taking my dog for a walk in the riverbed and looking into the odd pool for trout. and I had approached the true left bank of the river at a point where it cut into the willows when the dog locked up. I followed his point to spy a red hind feeding her way into the willow trees. She had no eartag either..