David Goodman's Blog, page 12

Daynote - Mon 12 May

A really wild thing (in both senses of the word) happened on my walk this morning. I was walking along the path in the woods I've walked a thousand times before, when a small brown rodent (a vole, I'm pretty sure) came bimbling out of the undergrowth, quite unconcerned and apparently unaware that I was there. I froze as it walked straight towards me, then it stopped, looked up, did the rodent equivalent of mumbling 'oh shit' and darted into the undergrowth at the side of the path.

Then, a bird l...