And the answers are...
Once again, thanks to the dozens of you who responded to Simon's deer antler challenge in last night's show.
As revealed by Simon on tonight's programme, the results are, in clockwise order, roe, sika, red and fallow.
As many of you also pointed out, roe and red deer are native species, while fallow and sika were introduced here.
The other two British deer species found in a wild state, muntjac and Chinese water deer, were also introduced to Britain.
Some of you also pointed out that another species, Pere David's deer, can also be seen in some deer parks, while there is an introduced herd of reindeer in the Cairngorms.
Once again, many apologies for confusing you all with the reference to muntjac.
Stephen
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A question for Bill Oddie.
We had a Blue Tit nest in our box that has a camera. 5 babies fledged. After they left we cleaned the box. Since then a Blue Tit has roosted every night and sometimes goes in during the day, we think it is the mother. It does not tolerate any other Blue Tit or Great Tit in the garden and chases them off.
We thought that tits in general formed into mixed flocks in winter and moved around.
Is this unusual behaviour for a single Blue tit to defend a territory in this way at this time of year?
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Here on BBC Wales Nature we've got a video in which the variations of Fallow deer coloration is discussed. You may have seen Simon King's piece on it on the programme, and it's always great to see them in the wild.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/nature/mediaexplorer/species/mammals/fallow_deer/video/fallow_deer_06
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dear bill and kate,
for the past three months,we have had regular nightly visits from five hungry hedgehogs,we started with one , now we have five,we put food out every night,sometimes twice a night, three of the hedgehogs are quite small and we will keep an eye on thier size,the big one is rolo and the medium one is spike,we have named the three small ones greedy gannets,we have bought a hedge hog house and put straw init,we know that the biggest one --rolo--is using the hedehog house,what we do'nt know is if they are territorial, and if the young ones are offspring of rolo,and we wondered if they will share the hedgehog house.
chris and verena
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Thanks Kate and Bill for another great show.
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ok never mind i got it wrong anway
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Oh no i'm going to miss half the show tonight!
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simon, i live in sheringham north norfolk and we see muntjac deer in our garden on almost a daily basis, singularly or on occasion we have seen 2.
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Yep, the MJs are certainly about here in North Norfolk. We're just along the coast from dennyoffroad in Sheringham, near Burham Market, and have started seeing increasing numbers of them nipping about in the last three years.
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We have a fox or two but last year we had a Munjac deer outside the ( photo taken as proof! ).
I think this is even stranger than Birmingham because I live near the entrance to Great Yarmouth's harbour.
We are surrounded on three sides by salt water ( a bit like the shape of Florida ) There is only one direction in that doesn't involve road bridges across the harbour. That is down from the North by the beach or a lot of narrow urban sprawl.
My postcode is NR30 3AS ... so look at where I am!
Also red squierrels seen in the churchyard along with many grey.
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living and working here in norfolk i have been spoilt for variety of deer near thetford.
reds and sika can be seen in the large area in the middle of the forest (a military training area, mostly heath) in the managed woods we have roe and muntjac, these can be seen at night on the side of the road in high numbers (25 - 30) in a 4 mile stretch just north of thetford.
further south near brandon i have seen a deer slightly larger than muntjac and smaller than roe, looking like a teddy bear with fangs. this would of course be the chinese water deer.
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Loved the Ivy flower bit of film but what about the poor old Ivy Bee (Colletes Hederae) it didn't even get a mention! I know they are only in the South of England at the moment... but they are spreading north. They are a fascinating solitary, mining bee that congregates in hugh numbers on the South Coast (surprised you haven't filmed them as they are so impressive when they mate with the females in the big mating balls). I've taken quite a few pics of them this October, see my nature blog at http://urbanextension.wordpress.com in Corfe Mullen. Probably one of the biggest lovers of ivy flowers that I've ever witnessed!
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we have muntjac deer in wymington on the northants/bedford border, we were out dog walking and one crossed in front of us at midday as bold as brass ,also we have jays a bird i have not seen for many years, also red kites and buzzards a welcome sight in the skies. we also have roe deer as well.
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Dear Autumnwatch staff
there was a by line for David Farline, photographer. Could you explain waht happened to him please?
Thank you
Tedwin22
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I went to London on Wednesday the 28th of
October with my friends. We walked through Hyde Park and I saw loads of grey Squirrels. I put my hand out and called out to them (like I call out to my cats) and it came ove to me and touched my hand with it's nose!!!!!!!! Could you maybe explain why it did that on the next programme or somthing??
Cheers.
Bristlenosegirl.
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Where is gordons grey seal diary bill and kate?
have you lost contact or is it just not on there anymore???
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why is it that at this time of year on our feeders we get the standard great tits and coal tits mainly up to 7 coal tits at a time ,..but by far the main feeders are firecrest's today i counted 4
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Whilst walking my dog in Charnwood Forest recently i'm sure i saw a muntjac deer in the area between Newtown Linford and Ulverscroft Priory.
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i love the wach whoat date will spring wach be on my mum died she use to love it
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