| Look out for deer, particularly stags, which in late March shed their antlers. |
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| The wood in the half-light waking at daybreak to the belling of stags that bursts into barks. |
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| My very earliest memories include playing beneath the trees and listening to the stags belling in the dusk. |
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| During the rut in October and November you can hear the stags belling or roaring. |
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| I love to hear the seasonal sounds of migrating geese and I still feel moved by the primeval belly-roars of stags in a Highland glen. |
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| I camped high in the glen, with a golden eagle and a clutch of red deer stags for company. |
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| His apartment is filled with expensively bound tomes and corny Victorian paintings of stags at bay. |
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| Herds of 14 fallow deer are regularly seen in the area north of Braintree, with fine stags among them. |
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| Red deer stags greeted me on the ridge crest and a buzzard wheeled away over the corrie below. |
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| In autumn the roar of the red deer stags that roam just north of the estate echoes around the castle. |
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| I like to see mature stags display all their colours to attract the female. |
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| Selective breeding has made turkey stags so broad-breasted, they cannot mate without crushing the female. |
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| It is usual for stags to be retrieved off the hill in the traditional way with the use of garrons. |
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| Marksmen are to be flown in by helicopter for the cull, in which nearly 1,000 hinds and stags will be killed. |
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| Four stags and three hinds were savaged in two separate attacks at Tatton Park, Knutsford. |
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| During the rut stags lost some 200 lb in weight, and can literally drop with exhaustion. |
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| 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. |
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| Foxes, stags, and hares can venture out on a Spring morning without fear of the red coats and their packs of hounds. |
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| 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. |
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| At this time of year it's rutting season for the deer, which means that stags are particularly aggressive and could attack dogs. |
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| They are abundant in this area, and in the autumn the sound of the stags rutting reverberates. |
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| The stags used in stag hunting are in effect tame farmed deer. |
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| Beyond it great beams of light lit up the depths of Glen Loyne and somewhere down below, red deer stags roared defiance at each other across the glen. |
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| The Stags have 8 days to recover and they need to show bouncebackability in the big local derby against Notts County. |
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| My very earliest memories are of picnics with my mother beneath the great trees in Richmond Park in London, of red deer stags belling in rut, of lightning and thunder. |
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| As he points out in the catalogue, the elemental feelings about life and death evoked in these paintings of solitary stags convey a mood of religious awe. |
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| The Deer Commission is on dangerous ground in calling for abolition of the closed season for stalking stags and extending the open season for shooting hinds. |
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| Finding good quality meat should be easy in Scotland, but it does depend enormously on the time of year and whether you should be eating stags or hinds. |
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| But there is something absurd about the way they circle this territory like two ancient stags, their antlers locked in some primeval combat, whose origins is long forgotten. |
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| Stags can defend themselves with their antlers but the hinds have no defence and are often attacked by the hounds. |
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| They take cutting material from it and produce completely fasciated plants, such as the Stags Horn Ash and the conifer Cryptomeria japonica fasciata. |
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| Large red deer stags, like the Caspian red deer or those of the Carpathian Mountains, may rival the wapiti in size. |
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| Only the stags have antlers, which start growing in the spring and are shed each year, usually at the end of winter. |
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| If neither stag backs down, a clash of antlers can occur, and stags sometimes sustain serious injuries. |
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| Dominant stags follow groups of hinds during the rut, from August into early winter. |
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| The stags may have as many as 20 hinds to keep from other, less attractive males. |
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| Once the antlers are shed, stags tend to form bachelor groups which allow them to cooperatively work together. |
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| Sika stags have stout, upright antlers with an extra buttress up from the brow tine and a very thick wall. |
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| One distinguishing feature is that Hampshire has a large free roaming herd of red deer, including more than 6,500 stags during busy seasons. |
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| As soon as the knobber started galloping, all the other stags, who. till now, had taken but a languid interest, if any, in his movements, jumped on to their feet. |
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| Bred originally in Germany to hunt wild boar and stags, Weimaraners are now becoming more popular as pets in Britain due to their striking appearance and unique coat colour. |
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| Rival stags challenge opponents by belling and walking in parallel. |
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| The Stags went in front thanks to an early own goal from luckless Imps keeper Paul Farman. |
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| Autumn is also when some of the stags grow their neck manes. |
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| The same is also true of aggressive contests between individuals in the animal kingdom, whether it is rutting deer stags or quarrelsome Siamese fighting fish. |
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| During the mating season, called the rut, mature stags compete for the attentions of the hinds and will then try to defend the hinds they attract. |
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| At cricket, the South Island is represented by the Canterbury Wizards, Central Stags, and Otago Volts in the Plunket Shield, one day domestic series, and the HRV Twenty20 Cup. |
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| Lee Stevenson opened the scoring after 26 for Andy Todd's Stags outfit before trialist Michael Boateng and Andy Owens added late goals to ensure the win. |
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| Hemel Stages 18 NW Crusaders 10 NORTH Wales Crusaders fell to their first league defeat of the season with an 18-10 defeat at the hands of Hemel Stags. |
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