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Sept 2025

Last Updated: 26/09/2025
Lifestyle
Lifestyle

Photo of the Week: A browsing deer at Studley Royal

by The Stray Ferret

| 21 Sept, 2025
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This unusual image of a deer athletically browsing on tree leaves was taken by reader Heather Middleton at Studley Royal, near Ripon.

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Photo: Heather Middleton.

Photo of the Week celebrates the Harrogate district. It could be anything from family life to capturing the district’s beauty. We are interested in amateur and professional photographs, in a landscape format.

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