Honey, we sit down with a peeping behind the window!

Mechelen The Colomawijk in Mechelen is a special inhabitant richer: a ree. The animal looked this morning, just a bit nasty inside a home in the Stenenmolenstraat and was often near sighted.

It was the 13-year-old son of the family, The Weaver of the animal this morning as first noted. “We had neighbors heard it here a few days hanging out and this morning it was suddenly in our garden. He even came up on the terrace, through the glass of the sliding door to look. Very nice to see, but at the same time also strange, as in the city,” says Ken Weaver.

The animal is more than welcome in the garden, even though it eats away the possible to the plants. “There I go not difficult about doing it. This year, We already two Flemish giants and several chickens being lost to a fox and a marten. That is awful for our pets, but belongs to the nature.” He suspects that the ree are primarily stop in the bushes at the premises of football club Sporting.

Bert Delanoeije of Natuurpunt Mechels Rivierengebied identifies the deer as soon as a young buck. “It goes well with the deer in our river valleys. They are too much, then swarms of them out. The are fairly mobile animals that have large distances to take. A channel crossing is not a problem; they can swim well.”

In march was also a deer filmed in a garden in the near pool Geerdegemvaart. Near so. If this same animal was difficult to make out. Delanoeije do not expect that the ree in the urbanized area will continue. “Most importantly they have space and peace, especially to their young cast. Unless the people he was going to feed it. Then I would not of fading that he remains..”

He warns, moreover, the ree do not approach. “It happens that deer is somewhere to crash and can no longer get away. People should not try to catch it, because even though the small animals are, they have razor-sharp hooves. Then call your vogelopvangcentrum or any other specialized service.”