DEER WATCH. By Richard Prior.

1987 1st edition. 8vo (161 x 240mm). Pp199. Colour and b/w photographs, illustrations by Neil McReddie, bibliography. Dark green boards, spine titled in gilt.

"No English or Scottish county is without one or the other of our six resident species [of deer] and they are rapidly colonising large areas of Wales". A first class field guide and introduction to British deer. Chapters include: At the bottom of your garden?; Deer lifestyles; Where did they come from?; Red deer - monarch of the glen; The rise and fall of the deer parks; Fallow and other park deer; Roe - the fairy of the woods; Muntjac - invader of the green belt; Sika - the phantom whistler; It's a teddy bear!; Deer in love; Watching wild deer; Recording the scene.