Badger!

[wascally_weasel]

I picked up my replacement bike and took it for a night ride in Richmond Park. Just after the top of Dark Hill (the hill near Kingston Gate) I saw something big run across the road (but it didn't look like a fox). I stopped and trained my twin front lights on it as it ran through the grass, it stopped and turned and I could see the distinctive

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[fechtbuch]

Imagining Wascally Yeager dodging high-altitude badgers while piloting expeimental X-bike at transonic speed...

[wascally_weasel]

"Can't hold it...she's breaking up

[bexfiles]

That's so cool about the badger! And yeah, heh.. testing bikes - a dream job for you!!

[wascally_weasel]

They are really quite big and quicker than I thought they would be. I had no idea they had them in the Park, although one guy I know saw one on Priory Lane on his way to the Park a few weeks back. It bared it's teeth at him and looked quite fierce he reported.

It's funny, despite living in a semi-rural area as a child I never saw half of the wild things that I've seen in London.

Wild Things seen in London that I wouldn't have expected:

Foxes*
Badger
Beaver (in the wetlands centre so doesn't count)
Eels
Kestrels
Buzzards
Peregrines
Little Egret
Cormorants
Great Crested Grebe (loads)
Voles
Bats
Parakeets

*Ok they are everywhere now but I wouldn't have ever expected to see one back home.