Two twin baby fallow deer are being looked after by a toddler at Mountfitchet Castle after the mother deer was killed in a road traffic accident.
A couple found the two baby deer wandering along the side of a dark main road in Suffolk in the pouring rain.
Knowing that Mountfitchet Castle in Stansted - which they had previously visited - rescues baby deer, the couple scooped the deer up into their car, and took them to the castle the very next day.
Since arriving, the baby deer are being hand-reared in the nearby home of Jeremy Goldsmith, one of Mountfitchet Castle's directors.
His daughter Isabella, who turns two in September, has taken a liking to the baby deer - and the three have become inseparable.
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Isabella helps with feeding time - which is at breakfast, lunch and in the evening - by giving them their bottles of special milk which is made especially for orphaned baby deer.
In time the baby deer will be integrated into the Mountfitchet Castle herd, where they will be looked after by the staff and their fellow rescue deer.
Mountfitchet Castle is a Norman motte and bailey castle and village, reconstructed on its original historic site.
As well as the herd of fallow deer, other rescue animals on site include chickens, pygmy goats and peacocks.
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