DECAPITATED deer heads left on Longwood-Mansfield Road are believed to be linked to an illegal deer hunting trend in North East Victoria.

Creightons Creek’s Donna Redmond said she was driving home early in the evening of Friday, April 5 when she spotted two deer heads, one on the road and one on the side of the road.

The healthcare worker pulled over and found multiple deer heads and parts of deer carcasses dumped on the side of the road and in a small creek.

“It's just not a nice sight,” she said.

"It looked to me on an angle like a German Shepherd's head… and I thought, ‘is that a dog?’

“I reckon if a kid had a seen it, it would have been real frightening for them.”

Ms Redmond said she removed the two deer heads from the road and reported the incident to Strathbogie Shire Council and Euroa Police.

A video she took at the site shows three deer heads, with antlers removed, and other deer parts in the roadside grass.

Leading Senior Constable Mick Voisey of Euroa Police said illegal deer hunting was not an issue usually seen around Euroa.

“The likelihood is the carcasses come from over Mansfield where someone's probably been hunting up in the high country, I'd suggest,” he said.

Senior Sargeant George Crawford of Jamieson Police, in the Mansfield Shire, told this masthead that deer heads dumped in public suggested they were hunted illegally.

“Police are aware of a trend in certain areas with Mansfield or Jamieson… and we work alongside GMA [Game Management Authority] to do joint agency patrols and sharing in intelligence and resources,” he said.

“We encourage any members of the public [to alert us to] images that are being posted on social media of people who are taking deer from areas they're not supposed to… [and] to take down registrations and provide any dash camera footage to your local police.”

He said information shared by “fed up” local communities in his shire have led to prosecutions.

According to the GMA, deer hunters must: carry a current game license for hunting deer; only hunt in permitted areas; only hunt during the open seasons and comply with bag limits; and use the appropriate firearm and minimum calibre and gauge.