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)

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!