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That is exactly it. I can quite easily find pleasure now in the sort of small earthly joys that completely passed me by for thirty odd years, such as a carpet of bluebells on a woodland floor in May. It follows therefore, that a split second glance of a never-seen-before example of (what turns...

I was informed yesterday by one of the wise folk of this board that the vast majority of pheasants found around these parts aren't wild as such, but have been bred in captivity, and are released out there to provide sport for those who like to spend their days off shooting furry and feathery...

Honestly, I've never seen one before, hence my confusion as to whether they actually lived round these parts. It was like greased lightning, just shot over the road in the sunshine, and scarpered into the hedgerow. I'm genuinely excited about it :lolol: I think my getting excited about wildlife...

About as common in Sussex as the Gilded Unicorn & the Great Crested Dodo.

Well, there you go. I reckon from that link above it would have been a weasel. Thanks, folks :) I had no idea we even had these things in leafy Mid Sussex. I'm quite inordinately thrilled to have seen it actually!

Nah, it juggled a football with immense control as it ran.

Hey: it beats talking about the Albion right now. I was just driving home, down a country lane somewhere round Hurstpierpoint, when a small, unidentified furry creature ran out of the hedgerow and dashed across the road into the undergrowth. For a split second, I thought it was a small...