wildlife

[Guest guest]

" Some folks .. especially Europeans, cause they wiped out their

wildlife

many generations ago .. think Americans are cavalier in their

attitudes

toward deer .. "

 

Well now, Butch, that's a gross injustice! On this side of the pond,

we can't have wiped out our wildlife - we're surrounded by it still -

just not many of us find it 'sport' to go out and shoot it anymore!

The other evening I was going to dinner with friends and, driving

along a particularly beautiful valley, I was mesmerised by the site

of about 20 deer of all sizes grazing in a field. We also have dozens

of badgers, hares, rabbits and foxes and, being right on the coast, a

HUGE variety of sea birds including herons, egrets and all types of

gulls.

 

Huh!

Jane

 

PS: My Illinois friend's father does get very twitchy at the mention

of all our wild deer though ...