Shy and elegant — yet far more hardy than its fragile appearance implies — the spotty-coated fallow deer is now more common than ever, despite only establishing itself on these shores when the Normans arrived, says Simon Lester.
The elegant, spotted and spindly-legged fallow is arguably the most attractive of all the deer species of Britain. Smaller than the red and larger than the roe, they have graced many of our great country-house deer parks for centuries….
