{"id":278216,"date":"2025-11-23T02:24:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T02:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/278216\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T02:24:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T02:24:10","slug":"essex-residents-surprised-to-see-deer-in-housing-estate-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/278216\/","title":{"rendered":"Essex residents surprised to see deer in housing estate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  At around 6.30am last Saturday morning, early risers in Black Notley\u2019s Mary Ruck Way enjoyed a treat from nature when an elegant deer trotted up the main road.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Callum Guntrip, 18, had just left home and was on his way to work when he saw the beautiful creature walk peacefully by his car.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Deer &#8211; Residents were surprised after a deer visited a housing estate one morning (Image: Callum Guntrip)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Stopping at one of the mini roundabouts in Mary Ruck Way, Mr Guntrip, a sales associate at Tommy Hilfiger, paused to take in the sight.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He said: \u201cSeeing a deer in the estate was such a nice surprise.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cI spotted it around 6:30am Saturday morning on my way to work, it was really beautiful to watch \u2013 though I think it was a little lost.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Residents quickly began to fawn over the video on Facebook, while some had already heard of her visit.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  While she calmly walked around the roundabout onto the grass verge, the gorgeous animal was possibly wondering if she could pop in and enjoy residents\u2019 indoor heating.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Or perhaps it was simply one of Santa\u2019s reindeer eager to get to work.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The deer walked up the housing estate and eventually to pastures new.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At around 6.30am last Saturday morning, early risers in Black Notley\u2019s Mary Ruck Way enjoyed a treat from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277291,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-278216","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-unitedkingdom","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}