Dunham Massey

Monday
This morning we went for a walk round the parkland at National Trust property Dunham Massey, accompanied by both Janet’s and Barry. It was a grey and drizzly morning, but we still had a pleasant walk, looking out for the deer. Dunham's much loved fallow deer have been part of the estate since the park walls were built in 1748, and they roam freely around the parkland. If you take a walk around the wider park, you’ll almost bound to see them munching on grass, or reaching up to eat the low hanging leaves.
I hadn’t realised there are four colours of fallowdeer, and you can find them all in the park – common (tan with white spots, fading to a grey colour in winter), menil (tan but with white spots year round), melanistic (almost entirely black or chocolate coloured) and white (a pale sandy colour, turning white with age).