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Particularly good roll on the Random Wildlife Encounters table the other day:


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Did I mention that I made a carrot?


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And speaking of animals you don't generally think of as being able to climb a chain-link fence:


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I have several potential Posts Of Some Length rattling around in my head, but I'm feeling extremely disinclined to word of late, possibly because the last few months have been a blur of OMG DEADLINE and five weeks of bronchitis and then six weeks of Mum underfoot with a broken arm and then a week of the gas company digging in my lawn like psychotic ( Read more... )

And in the "Now there's something that you really don't see every day" department, did you know that garter snakes can climb a chain-link fence? Or that we had garter snakes?


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The best picture of the mink I'm likely to get without remembering to carry a proper camera everywhere:


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Okay, so, maybe that other guy was a stag-beetle, because we do seem to have them:


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