Greenwich Park deer reintroduction.

‌When I was a little kid,  I used to love being taken to a small side path in the flower gardens at Greenwich park and looking at the deer enclosure and the deers living there.

Over the last few years when I have looked into the enclosure or to show someone the deers I was always disappointed that I could not see them.  Perhaps they were hiding round the corner or in a housing in the enclosure, or just sick of us humans looking at them all the time.

Well this week I found out the reason I could not see them,  an that is because they were not actually there.

It would seem the herd of fallow and red deer were removed from the enclosure back in 2021, and relocated to Richmond park.

Regardless of the fact that I knew nothing about the removal  of the deer from their enclosure, it’s  good news to hear that they are back living in Greenwich  Park.

The Royal Parks said a new herd of eight fallow deer were “enjoying a renovated and extended deer paddock”.

Even though they are back you probably still won’t be seeing them for a short while, as park rangers have said the new arrivals would be settling in over the next few weeks and were therefore unlikely to be very visible to the public.