Rare white deer stuns visitors at Scottish beauty spot

Visitors to the Scottish Wildlife Trust’s Loch of the Lowes Visitor Centre in Perthshire were astonished to spot a rare white deer. Photographer José van Hell captured images of the fallow buck resting by the loch. The deer is not an albino, as its eyes are normally coloured; its pale coat comes from leucism, a rare genetic condition that reduces melanin. Kiera Fox and her son Orryn, who had come to see the reserve’s ospreys, were delighted by the unexpected sight. The reserve covers 130 hectares of woodland and freshwater loch.