Distance: 3.8 km
Level: Easy
Follow the Yellow waymarkers
With so many of you enjoying a walk or two while you are here, we are delighted to bring you another of our special waymarked routes which take you from Tiny Home door to Tiny Home door.
This time, we introduce our lovely ‘Oh Deer Trail’, simply follow the YELLOW way markers from Tiny Home. Here are our directions and photographs of key features and deer to look out for on the route.
Enjoy!
The Yellow Walk is a short easy walk which combines both the road and the farm. The road is extremely quiet and most of the time you are lucky to see a car!
It is a good walk to combine part of it with some of the others depending on how much you want to do.
Proceed out past your car and through the gate turning left down the hill.
When you reach the road turn right and continue on the road. After about 250 metres there is a small field on your left. This often has stags (male deer) in it between March and August.
Continue for a further 0.75km.
When you see some high boarding on the left, you should turn right and proceed up the farm track. These fields generally have cereal crops in.
The main crop we grow is Spring Barley which is a malting variety. This is then made into alcohol spirit, so you never know your Gin could have started here!
Once you have past the third field and the track goes left turn right and go through the gate into the field. This probably contains sheep.
Proceed along the bottom of the field to the far side where you go through another gate.
In front of you go through the middle gate into what we call a lane way. This lane containers a row of trees in between the fields.
Depending on the time of year these fields will contain some of our deer herd.
During May and June, the deer are calving so look out for young deer calves.
Mum will always try to hide them.
They will lie very still but Mum will be watching from the distance and knows where her calf is. In the wild this is so predators are not attracted to the young calf.
Mum will come back about four times a day to feed it. At about four days old it will old enough to join the herd. If you are lucky to see one close up, please do not try and touch it.
Continue along the lane till you get to a small field on the right. This field generally has more stags in it.
The stags start growing their new antlers in March, so the size of the antlers will depend on the time of year of your visit. March to August is when they are in velvet and antlers grow up to 6cm. a day.
The velvet strips off in August and the antler turns hard. This is in preparation for the Rut (mating season).
This is a process that happens every year. Every year the antlers get bigger.
From here join the track and take the third gate on the right to arrive back above Tiny Home.
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