THIS roe deer was spotted near Slaithwaite by Examiner reader Jean Winn.
Mrs Winn, of Cop Hill, caught the timid creature on camera as she let her pet dogs out into her back garden at 8am one morning.
The shy animal was grazing in a field with sheep near Scout Wood.
Mrs Winn said: "I watched it for a while, then it bounced over the barbed wire fence, back into the wood I suppose."
She said she had heard that another deer had been spotted last summer in the same place.
She said: "Friends have seen a deer in the same place before and others have been seen in Merrydale, which is the valley below my house."
Reports of deer sightings have been flooding in to the Examiner since Waterloo man David Mason told how he spotted four deer near Storthes Hall Lane at Kirkburton last week.
Since then they have been sighted near Farnley Tyas and in Golcar.
According to Meltham expert Bob Milner, there are thousands living all over Huddersfield.
Mr Milner, who has been a qualified deer stalker for 20 years, said there are many established deer populations in areas including Fixby golf course, land around Elland bypass and Brookfoot in Brighouse.
He says the main kinds of deer in the area are roe deer, muntjac deer and red deer.
Roe deer and red deer are native but muntjac deer - which are the size of spaniel dogs - were introduced to England in the 19th century.
