hopefully your right, I find with the fallow deer that they rut around about the 18-26th October each year after a clear cold night, one of the park rangers told me that a few years ago and hes been right for the last three, I went to Knole on Sunday morning and it was a warmish cloudy morning and no action going on, just 30ish photographers standing around waiting, when this morning it was bloody cold and not a soul about, just a hundred deer and me, lovely.
sounds like Saturday could be the right conditions then, it's fair to say these wardens know what they're talking about! 
may try some video this time aswell!

















