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muntjac in Northern Ireland!

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04 June 2009, 09:51
brass thief
muntjac in Northern Ireland!
Killed on the road yesterday near Newtonards.
You naughty boys! Wink
04 June 2009, 10:14
IanF
They swim!?! Eeker

Rgds Ian


Just taking my rifle for a walk!........
04 June 2009, 10:39
Richard E
quote:
Originally posted by IanF:
They swim!?! Eeker



YEP

sorry the pics are not as clear as i had hoped










but don't really think they swam that far thou dancing
04 June 2009, 10:42
Richard E
quote:
Originally posted by IanF:
They swim!?! Eeker


YEP


sorry the pics are not as clear as i had hoped










just don't think they swam that far thou dancing
04 June 2009, 12:42
Claret_Dabbler
There are a few populations, one quite close to me. It has been on the news a bit over the past week:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/nor..._ireland/7919106.stm


This one was killed on the road yesterday:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/nor..._ireland/8082155.stm


Cohannon, this is out your direction??


Just because you are paranoid, doesn't mean they are not out to get you....
04 June 2009, 15:44
Claret_Dabbler
quote:
Originally posted by IanF:
They swim!?! Eeker

Rgds Ian


They may have hitched a lift on a car ferry......


Just because you are paranoid, doesn't mean they are not out to get you....
04 June 2009, 17:46
Boghossian
Was only ever going to be a matter of time. Like other Chinese imports, I fully expect them to conquer the continent next.

Isn't there a small population in the Netherlands?
04 June 2009, 18:43
Cohannon
Yep Brian, this incident seems to be the real McCoy. I've heard the local stories of muntjac sightings in my area around Newtownards, Millisle and Donaghadee. Been spending quite a few hours dawn and dusk thinning out the local foxes so maybe I'll nail one sooner than expected ... Smiler
04 June 2009, 20:27
Claret_Dabbler
I first heard of some that were in east Tyrone about five years ago. I wasn't convinced until a vegetable farmer friend of mine, who would not know a muntjac from a hole in the road, described one very accurately to me. He told me he saw this one in his cabbage field near the Birches at about 6.00am one morning - this is about four years ago.

There is another group around the south shore of Lough Neagh, east of where the River Bann joins the lake. Another reliable guy told me he saw a group of three in a field there last summer.

I had not heard of them in your area.

I suspect the wet terrain and boggy areas here will suit them very well.


Just because you are paranoid, doesn't mean they are not out to get you....
05 June 2009, 00:58
Richard E
luv the pic of the stuffed muntie
looks to me , like they hav used a set of water chinese deer teeth to give a better effect
can't ever remember a buck having canines as big as that even in medal standard bucks
jumping
06 June 2009, 01:22
londonhunter
Brian SHIHHHHHH

Privately the "chinese cockle pickers" are responsible for bringing Muntjacs to Northern Ireland.