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Had a narrow escape from a speeding badger on my way home last night. It belted across the road in front of my car. No farmers appeared to be chasing it, for what it's worth. Meanwhile, I unfortunately exploded a pheasant en route somewhere at work yesterday. Tried my best to avoid it, but in...

This just in: there's a pheasant splattered across the centre white line of the A272 Rocky Lane in Haywards Heath this evening. Sad times. rip babes ur wiv da angles now xx Minutes's applause v Blackburn?

I know. It's the size of their faces, isn't it, and all that white on the underside of their feathers that makes them appear quite ghostly. I love seeing them.

Couple of my workmates hit an owl as they drove along to a job one night. It was still alive but injured & in pain so they scooped it up, wrapped in a coat & whizzed it to a 24 hour vet. Happy ending: the owl survived and was released to fly again once its wing had healed :clap2: The sight of...

Badgers come out at night though, hence you don't see them as much as (say) rabbits. I drive at night loads, so I see plenty of them. Unfortunately I've hit a couple of badgers in my own car and once in a work car. The one at work, all I saw was something flashing across in front of the car. It...

Ha. On that note, here's a bit of trivia for you. If you hit a deer with your car and kill it, you're not allowed to take it away. If you come across one (dead!), that somebody else has hit, you can take it home to eat, should you wish. Wouldn't fancy it myself: from experience, many deer...

The A24 isn't the responsibility of Highways England. It's maintained (or not, as the case may be) by the respective local authority highways departments.

You've never seen a full grown deer as roadkill? You should try driving round East Sussex a bit more. Sadly, it happens all the time, especially around Ashdown Forest & the Wealden area. Lots are killed, but plenty survive for a time with broken legs or whatever and have to be destroyed. They...