THE GREAT GLENCOE STAG PARTY
IT must have seemed like an ideal photo opportunity when this group of Highland tourists found a stag calmly wandering into their midst.
But as they whipped out their cameras and praised their luck, one visitor seemed to take things just a little too far.
As she approached for a closer shot, the stag lowered his head in an unmistakable warning gesture.
While the woman was firmly reminded to keep her distance, the wild stag had no reservations about wandering up to eat out of the hands of other members of the group he encountered in a Glencoe car park.
Many of the delighted visitors took photographs of themselves with the majestic creature.
Experts say the stag could have grown accustomed to human contact because of the huge numbers who stop at the car parks and viewpoints along the road running through the picturesque glen. Richard Cooke, chairman of the Association of Deer Management Groups, said the tourists would have been in no danger from the animal.
He said: ‘In terms of safety, stags are usually more frightened of humans than the other way around and they only pose a risk during breeding season, which has now passed.
‘I would be more concerned that people are feeding it things that are not good for it.’
He urged visitors to be sensible about any food they are giving to the stag.