As a former Love Island star has named her newborn daughter Bambi, we take a look back at some heartwarming pictures of deer.
From four-year-old Kenneth Carle sharing a laugh with a fawn named after the famous Disney Character to a dog standing over his new friend, we have some photos that will simply make you say ‘awww’.
Do you recognise any of the people or place in the pictures below?
Tiny roe Fern gets a gentle clean-up from Solveig at Monaltrie Animal Park and Garden Centre, by Ballater, in 1978.
Grub’s up for these red deer amid the January snowfall, courtesy of north-east farmer Hugh Cooper in 1984.
King, the Carle family’s German Alsatian cross, standing guard over his deer friend in 1977.
A stag foraging near a Braemar cottage after the winter weather drove red deer from the hills in 1984 in search of food.
Surrogate mum Kathy Davidson, Hillview, Deskford, feeding an orphaned three-week-old roe deer fawn in 1993.
Aberdeen animal inspector Calum Watt caring for a three-day- old fawn found helpless near Huntly after its mother was killed in an accident in 1987.
A group of red deer out for a wander slap bang in the middle of the caravan and camping site at the Linn O’Dee, just a few miles beyond Braemar in 1980.
Elsie Adam, son Michael, 12, and daughter Pamela, 10, with an orphaned roe deer at Station Cottage, Tillyfourie, in 1978.
Curious deer making friends in the interest of a bite to eat in 1978.
Photographer Jim Love took this shot of the magnificient pair just three miles from Aberdeen’s Union Street – at Doonies Farm, Altens.
Four-year-old Kenneth Carle feeding Bambi in 1977, but the week old roe deer reckons his ear might produce milk instead resulting in lots of giggles.
It’s 1976 and Walter is ready for school at Torphins – but Bambi wants to come along too.
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