rut ?

iwsf

Wondering is the rut as started in some places ? Any roaring or groaning or whistling ?
It is probably still early but just curious.

game hunter

Iv been out on my permissions a lot the with the last two weeks and i havent heard anything yet . Im down West Waterford area .

GH

E. Fudd

A lot of thrashing of bushes and ground going on in the Dublin foothills. Heard a couple of whistles on Friday evening whilst stalking a new piece of ground but nothing major.

podge.243

Well in the last few day's there'e a gud bit of whistling on one of my permission's their starting early now they might drop their guard a bit:D

fallowbuck

Ive come across both sex of fallow deer together in fairly big herds and the big boys are testing eachother out its building up here anyway's:P

Mauser 308

Heard whistling around Wicklow over the last week, just starting off I would think. Give it another say 2 weeks and it will be in full flow.

Deer Hunter DL

the rut is on for the big red here in donegal

iwsf

nothing here in Galway for the fallows. Plenty of does and calves but no bucks to be seen or heard.

jmrc

hearing a lot of whistling this evening up the west Wicklow way

vixdname

iwsf wrote: »

nothing here in Galway for the fallows. Plenty of does and calves but no bucks to be seen or heard.

+1 on that, same in the south Tipp area

Deerspotter

I heard the first stag whistle last night - what a sound - nothing more haunting in my opinion.

Deerspotter

Has this mild weather halted the rut? I was out this morning and saw loads of stags, but all of them were in groups, none of them were rutting and no whisteling at all.

Deer Hunter DL

Deerspotter wrote: »

Has this mild weather halted the rut? I was out this morning and saw loads of stags, but all of them were in groups, none of them were rutting and no whisteling at all.

yes this happened one other year too its way to warm to be fighting and trying to get hinds , i have noticed a sudden stop here in donegal too but there are some stags with hinds up here already so maybe this spell of good weather could be the end of the rut in my area

iwsf

was out as well this morning , saw many does and calves but no bucks to be seen or heard.
Looking very good though for the November

tfox

Was out in Kildare yesterday evening, definite thrashing and wallowing, heard a couple of whistles and 2 stags walked right upto the landrover where we'd been only 10mins before, trotting along the skyline as usual :rolleyes: Saw them later down the bottom of the same field thrashing about in the dark !!

Mauser 308

Heard some whistling again in Wicklow during the week. Was down on fallow ground this evening in Offaly, and heard nothing at all. Seems quite late this year. Also still notice most of the sika stags in Wicklow are only shedding their velvet, very few in full hard antler.

Birdnuts

No stirrings here yet - usually around the middle of this month in these parts:)

323

Seen someone earlier said Reds were roaring, one farmer told me he heard one 4 nights ago, but been out last 3 mornings, Donegal, Nothing yet, no roaring that is, got meat hanging.

Is the warm spell delaying the beginning of the rut?

Birdnuts

323 wrote: »

Seen someone earlier said Reds were roaring, one farmer told me he heard one 4 nights ago, but been out last 3 mornings, Donegal, Nothing yet, no roaring that is, got meat hanging.

Is the warm spell delaying the beginning of the rut?

Possibly - maybe like other harbringers of autumn, they need a bit of frost to get going;)

iwsf

Reds in Sligo still quiet , nothing at all going on