When we first moved into this house right on the edge of Glasgow seeing deer was a very rare occurrence. We;d see perhaps one or two over the course of a winter when the weather was at its worst and we'd assumed that the deer had come off the hills to look for food.
10 years on and they're everywhere - there are deer in the field behind the house every day, and not just one or two, there were 12 yesterday. I think they're Sika deer, small brown ones with a white bum. No natural predators, nobody's hunting them and controlling the numbers. Friend had a very close shave on a local road last week when two deer bounded out in front of her, and someone else locally had their garden trashed by a deer which got in and couldn't get out.
Surely this isn't just a Glasgow issue??