Rutting Season Walk to See the Fallow Deer
Experience the fall rut of the fallow deer in the Horsterwold. In addition to horses and roe deer, fallow deer also live in this area. This beautiful and evocative species of deer has a rutting season that occurs later than that of the red deer, specifically from mid-October to mid-November. To ensure successful reproduction, the males prepare during this period to impress the females. They do this, just like the red deer, with their impressive shovel-shaped antlers. The males also make a distinctive sound: the bellow. This sounds different from the call of the red deer. Fallow deer are most active just at dusk, when it gets colder. So join the Staatsbosbeheer forest ranger in the afternoon on a trip to the Stille Kern to spot them. Upon your return, a bowl of hot soup will be waiting for you.
Tips:
- - Starting point: Bingelweg parking lot on Spiekweg in Zeewolde.
- Price includes coffee, tea, and soup.
- Distance is approximately 7 km.
- Tip: Bring binoculars, a camera, and mosquito repellent.
- Not suitable for people with physical disabilities; the route follows unpaved, muddy trails.
- Dogs are not allowed.
- The end time is an estimate of the expected time.