As the long drought continues, so the residents of the mountain move closer to the few remaining sources of water.
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Roe Deer are normally shy and wary, but their fear of humans is now overcome by their need for water and fresh green vegetation.
As we approach, they turn without fear and observe us briefly before returning to browse the tips of the blackberry stems that overhang this track.
Then, in their own time, they sniff the air and move off to the right looking for more tasty morsels that surround the oasis of this lake.
All draws in as this ecology anxiously awaits the first deep rains of the Autumn.
Photos: Roe Deer at Los Banos. Courtesy of the author.