In reply to David Tierney.

Sounds like you spotted a Muntjac Deer on your walk.

We see muntjacs occasionally when walking down the Vine, it’s usually as it’s starting to drop dark.

As a visitor to Skegness I think you’ve been lucky to spot one, they tend to remain hidden.

We regularly walk around Skegness at night (we walk 2 1/2 to 5 miles a day) and have once seen a muntjac walking on the main Skegness beach (where the bus shelters are). That was unusual.

If you want to see more deer: muntjac and roe deer you should head up to Gibraltar Point Nature Reserve at dusk or early in the morning. There’s a fair amount of them on the nature reserve.

Most interesting wild life encounter in Skeg was a solitary otter in Skegness boating lake, now that was surprising.

On the morning of 31st August at around 7.10 i was on my way back to the caravan with my young dog. I came out of the playing field onto the path heading back to the Richmond site when I spotted a animal on the path maybe 100 m in front. It saw me and moved into the bushes by the fence to the right. It then ran mostly hidden towards the playing fields and when it came out of the bushes looked like either a deer or a wallaby. Very fast and shy so it could not have been a dog. A dog would have come towards us if it was hungry and its natural for a dog to be inquisitive. Any Ideas.