Dark Scottish buck stalking

Home counties deer manager Paul Childerley is on his first roestalking trip north of the Border. He is in Aberdeenshire with Sergio Couto of SerCout Wild Harvest, looking for bucks. Not much deerstalking last year means they are thick on the ground. Find out how they get on.
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There are more than two million red, roe, fallow, sika, muntjac and Chinese water deer in Britain’s countryside and semi-urban areas, the highest level for 1,000 years. Numbers have doubled since 1999, according to the Deer Initiative, the UK government’s deer agency.
Deer are an attractive and an important part of our wildlife. However, they have no natural predator in the UK so numbers must be sensibly and strategically managed to keep them in balance with their habitat and to prevent damage to crops, trees, woodland flora, gardens and other wildlife.
Deer cause £4.5 million-worth (Forestry Commission Scotland) of damage to plantations and other commercial woodlands in Scotland. Crop damage is estimated at £4.3m a year according to DEFRA, with the greatest damage on cereal crops in east and south-west England.
More than 8,000 hectares (Parliamentary Office for Science and Technology) of woodland with SSI status is currently in ‘unfavourable’ or ‘recovering’ condition due to deer impacts such as browsing and fraying. Deer can also influence the variety of wildlife in woodlands and other habitats by altering structural and plant species diversity. According to the University of East Anglia’s Dr Paul Dolman, that has resulted in a 50% decline in woodland bird numbers where deer are present, impacting particularly on nightingales, blackcaps, chiffchaffs and warblers.
Deer are susceptible to Bovine TB and may be responsible for the transmission of TB to cattle. They are also the likely driver behind the UK’s increasing tick population (Scharlemann et al 2008).
Happily, venison is a delicious meat. It is wild, natural and free range, and - almost fat-free - it is one of the healthiest meats available today. Results from research commissioned by the Game-to-Eat campaign (Leatherhead Food International Research 2006) suggest that there are real health benefits to eating game. Venison is high in protein, low in saturated fatty acids and contains higher levels of iron than any other red meat.
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[@jasongarratt3959]

Beautiful buck, great shooting as always from Paul thanks

[@davidbetts480]

Very nice shot Paul 👌 👍

[@derekedgley5074]

Sergio could have stopped the doe bounding away by calling, as he is the best I’ve ever heard in vocally communicating with deer. To see and hear him in action doing that, would make a great video

[@Sercout]

Thanks Derek Good you ear from you Regards Sérgio

[@2626stephen]

Good shot paul

[@col.cottonhill6655]

Looks like a beautiful place. Ive never been across the Atlantic but If I do I'd like to visit Scotland.

[@rgthomson100]

Im from Scotland and its like Canada i would say, i shoot a lot and the deer stalking here is fantastic, i guess with this channel you like hunting and we do have a lot of deer, if you visit it wont be forgotten

[@col.cottonhill6655]

@@rgthomson100 I am into hunting. I live in the western U.S. I really enjoy it here there so much public land. And the game is magnificent as well. I don't think I could live anywhere else. But I would love to hunt the UK. And Africa one day of course

[@fiveroll7703]

Yeahhhhh good shot❤🍻

[@fiveroll7703]

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