I’ve been slowly building up the idea of a fictitious highland estate, a creative vehicle to slander the landed gentry and imagine debauched tales of the big house. Of course the Red Deer is so ubiquitous to the highlands, their numbers now endemic and out of proportion to the eco system in which they live, it’s why we have so few trees and so many tics, even the deer keds are making a comeback.
If the ‘Monarch of the Glen’ by Sir Edwin Landseer is the quintessential image of the highlands, this is supposed to be the opposite.
These articles on the Assynt Crofters website will give you a flavour of what the red deer situation is in the area.
https://www.theassyntcrofters.co.uk/deer/
I’ve been slowly building up the idea of a fictitious highland estate, a creative vehicle to slander the landed gentry and imagine debauched tales of the big house. Of course the Red Deer is so ubiquitous to the highlands, their numbers now endemic and out of proportion to the eco system in which they live, it’s why we have so few trees and so many tics, even the deer keds are making a comeback.
If the ‘Monarch of the Glen’ by Sir Edwin Landseer is the quintessential image of the highlands, this is supposed to be the opposite.
These articles on the Assynt Crofters website will give you a flavour of what the red deer situation is in the area.
https://www.theassyntcrofters.co.uk/deer/
