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*Myself and Other Animals

Joey Jones12 Comments

Do you ever see wild animals?

For such a huge animal lover, I’m pretty much starved of seeing them in the wild.

I’ll get a whiff of fox or hear about ‘those wretched badgers’ ( that gets my hackles up, of course!), and  I’ll get an occasional glimpse of a Muntjac, It’s all very sad, really.

We were out just before sun up this morning and crossed paths with an escapee pheasant, wandering lost and alone without his family ( they would have all be slaughtered at the hands/guns of nobs, yesterday)

We didn’t see today, but sometimes a rabbit, sitting close to the road, oblivious to the traffic-clearly in the throes of Mixymotosis- another horror cooked up by Man. The cruelty/abuse of animals will never end.

I’m presently trying to befriend a crow that hangs around here sometimes, but they are remarkably skittish for such a large bird. Oh, talking of birds, there was a Red Kite out and about early this morning, too.

Squirrels, how can I forget those. They’re always around much to the annoyance of Patch.

*I’ve taken the title for today’s DP from an autobiography by Gerald Durrell. ( 1925~1995)

Gerald Durrell

And now I shall go and read what the others have to say about wildlife they get to see. I’m sure bloggers from other countries are going to have more interesting sightings -ooh. I wonder if anyone will mention brown bears? I love those!

12 thoughts on “*Myself and Other Animals”

  1. Its lovely to see the wild animals!

    We go to Richmond park, the coffee shop has an outside seating area. The crows are so clever, and wait for people to leave, then fly onto the tables for remnants of food and drink from the milk jugs!!!

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  3. Great post Joey. These animals remind me of the tv show Animals of Farthing Wood if you have ever heard of it, a story about the animals journey to a new home and their struggles, many lose their lives on the way, many because of mankind.

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