As I drove to work through the little country lanes my first "wow" was when a fox trotted along the road just ahead of me then vanished through a hole in the hedge! Bearing in mind it was broad daylight and is a fairly well used cut through between major A roads, I was really surprised.
Next, only a mile or so along the lanes, 2 rabbits were playing at the side of the road on the verge. As they heard the car approach, 1 dived through the hedge and the other ran a short way up the road before following suit! They were both big, healthy looking rabbits.
And finally, just around the Shakerley Mere area, Swallows were overhead, swooping low over the car so I could clearly see the delicate tail feathers!
All of that within the space of a few miles and about 5 minutes journey! Amazing!
It's times like that when I really appreciate where I live and work, and the quality of life it affords me. This was reinforced at lunchtime when I sat in the car, in the car park at work, so I could get some quiet time out of the office. I had the windows down and barely a second passed without birdsong.
On the topic of birds. We found a shell in the garden at the weekend and I think I have correctly identified it as a Blackbird egg shell. Here is a pretty bad camera-phone picture!
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