The late morning sun was streaming in through the branches that surrounded us within the open copse.
We were looking upwards, methodically searching the flock of Lesser Redpolls for something a little more special. Our necks were craning and binoculars were being lifted and then rested at regular intervals as we inspected each bird dangling from the alders. To my left I heard movement among the leaf litter.
I could see something quite large … well … larger than the redpolls we were watching moving around among the dense vegetation. I repositioned myself and refocused my bins. It was a Muntjac, or Reeve’s Muntjac to give it its proper name, quietly grazing on new buds. Our silence had enabled it unwittingly to venture close to us.
I slowly moved the camera from pointing at the canopy and attempted to get a clear line of sight to the deer. To avoid foliage, branches, twigs and an assortment of brambles I would have to seemingly bend light! With a degree of bobbing, ducking and at one point kneeling I got some sort of shot as the sunshine lit one side of the deer’s face.
Letter From Norfolk 
Nice close up, and I like the light cast on just one side of its face, which gives a mysterious sort of rendering to the image, Sally
It’s a mysterious little deer Sally. We rarely get a good look at them before they are away into the undergrowth.
Beautiful!
These little things are Sally – although they are said to be our ugliest deer!