| At this time of year it's rutting season for the deer, which means that stags are particularly aggressive and could attack dogs. |
| Men appear to be the most accident-prone, with four times as many stags losing personal items as hens, and twice as many being victims of theft. |
| The wood in the half-light waking at daybreak to the belling of stags that bursts into barks. |
| They are abundant in this area, and in the autumn the sound of the stags rutting reverberates. |
| Some of the young stags early in a hunt may turn and stand at bay for short periods as a sort of posturing, as it were, to the hounds. |
| Foxes, stags, and hares can venture out on a Spring morning without fear of the red coats and their packs of hounds. |
