Thread: Deer in Strange Places.

Originally Posted by Bushwalker

Thought there were some Sika released/fell out of a trail on the top of the Kopu Hikuai road years ago, DoC sent hunters and dogs in after them. Yes i agree there would have been a lot of fun on the Paninsula

We live in Whitianga, one of our lads at works dad's used to bowl the odd red up the 309 back in the 90's, long since been clear of them though. There's been a few escapees from our local deer farms but as soon as DOC get a wiff of deer around here its all on with contractors in the hills. The poor goats don't even stand a chance up here with contractors and green rain scheduled for later in the year, the scrub bull's on the other hand are fairly common

Originally Posted by Liquidasset

We live in Whitianga, one of our lads at works dad's used to bowl the odd red up the 309 back in the 90's, long since been clear of them though. There's been a few escapees from our local deer farms but as soon as DOC get a wiff of deer around here its all on with contractors in the hills. The poor goats don't even stand a chance up here with contractors and green rain scheduled for later in the year, the scrub bull's on the other hand are fairly common

some hunting for the young buggers perhaps - have chased scrub stuff south Taranaki for many years and target the yearlings and the fat looking younger ones - good hunting and great eating - leave the old stuff to breed the heads are crap jersey sort of cross so we just target good eating

There’s Sika one minute from fern hill

So yes they’re around your place

And plenty of fallow thanks to Ray Green and rising floodwaters

Nice Red Stag on the hill overlooking Taradale as well where they used to do the Sugar loaf hill climb

Looking straight down on the city centre

Originally Posted by 7mmsaum

There’s Sika one minute from fern hill

So yes they’re around your place

And plenty of fallow thanks to Ray Green and rising floodwaters

Nice Red Stag on the hill overlooking Taradale as well where they used to do the Sugar loaf hill climb

Looking straight down on the city centre

Greetings and thanks,
That is interesting. There are a block of pines behind us and I have a stock trough halfway up the ridge to them. I will have to keep my eyes peeled in future.
GPM.

Originally Posted by 7mmsaum

There’s Sika one minute from fern hill

So yes they’re around your place

And plenty of fallow thanks to Ray Green and rising floodwaters

Nice Red Stag on the hill overlooking Taradale as well where they used to do the Sugar loaf hill climb

Looking straight down on the city centre

Probably the red stags from Symons on Springfield Road. Lost the lot poor bugger. He has finally refenced the block. Had some of his deer above the Nook looking down no doubt perplexed about how they got out.

There's been deer out Crownthorpe and Matipiro way for years. No surprise they're in Okawa area. Mainly reds though.

Reds used to be all the way out to the end of Farewell Spit, 25 km from the nearest hills. There are a few freshwater lakes out there.

Last winter I saw red footprints in the mudflats of Westhaven Inlet, apparently crossing between headlands at low tide (at night I guess). Also browsing the native that grows all the way down to the high water mark.

Red footprints all over the sand of one particular beach in the Abel Tasman.

Tuwharatoa are up to their second replanting of pine trees in some blocks in the CNI. Won't even let the bros shoot the blocks and are spending more on poaching patrols than deer shooting.
Hard to comprehend the thought processes that the accountants/owners went through. Replantings have been in the hundreds of thousands of $ to redo.

And it just adds to the repositories of deer dotted about the landscape.

yes same as a lot of Gisborne pine blocks a few shut them up as their own little hunting blocks

Blenheim gets a visitor every now and then. I remember reading about these two.

Red

Ugly dog

There's a rumor that chamois have been seen on the beach as well.

Originally Posted by Hahn

Blenheim gets a visitor every now and then. I remember reading about these two.

Red

Ugly dog

There's a rumor that chamois have been seen on the beach as well.

Wouldn't surprise me at all. I bumped into mobs of Chamois within a minute or two of the SH6 river bridges across most of the big west coast rivers. Would only be a day or two trundle down the riverbed to get to the coast and take in the sea breeze

Originally Posted by XR500

Wouldn't surprise me at all. I bumped into mobs of Chamois within a minute or two of the SH6 river bridges across most of the big west coast rivers. Would only be a day or two trundle down the riverbed to get to the coast and take in the sea breeze

Ive watched chamois grazing on the Franz airstrip, and seen them on the beach further south.

one really strange one that still stands out for me was one of our DOC staff a very experienced hunter shot a thar on the side of the road south of Taumaranui now where the hell did that come from - he saw it in a paddock and went back and tipped it over - another one I bet a lot of hunters dont know was that whitetail were released at a Port Waikato property - they were shot out by DOC or where they ?? I dont know myself - but yes they were there I have seen the photos

Someone's pet?

Originally Posted by Barry the hunter

one really strange one that still stands out for me was one of our DOC staff a very experienced hunter shot a thar on the side of the road south of Taumaranui now where the hell did that come from - he saw it in a paddock and went back and tipped it over - another one I bet a lot of hunters dont know was that whitetail were released at a Port Waikato property - they were shot out by DOC or where they ?? I dont know myself - but yes they were there I have seen the photos

Sambar can be very elusive for a horse sized animal. Over the decades they have worked their way up the Rangatikei river valley, to now well past Taihape. One was shot close to the Gentle Annie some years ago.