Today I saw something that reminded me how much I love living where I do. I live in an area of town where there is an interesting mixture of open land and business, townhouses and free hold houses.
There are still sheep around the corner from me, and lots of plots for horses as well. I have also seen wild rabbits, some sort of wild dog which looked like a jackal, owls, frogs, and squirrels (or perhaps a mongoose or two).
Today (along the road past the prison) the traffic came to a complete stand still for a few seconds while a family of ducks hurtled across the road. The last little one was trying to cross so quickly that it rolled and fell across the road in a particularly frantic way. The parents waited until they were across and then continued on. This is not really so uncommon. I have seen the same thing by the river when we all came to a screeching halt for a large and beautiful legevaan (large type of amphibius lizard I think, which I cannot spell).
I am encouraged that we still do this in Africa, and it pleases me that we still have so many wild things living around here.
I also have a large frog living in my pond. That is very cool too.
I used to have many more birds in my garden before I got a cat who cathes them for me as presents on a regular basis...
I wonder how many wild things you have in your garden?
2 comments:
The ducks were clearly on an escape attempt from the prison.
I wonder if they got away
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