Impressive wildlife

On the way home from work today Bev saw some spectacular wildlife, but luckily they didn't attack her or the car.

As she was coming out of Ashridge Park, only a few feet away from the car a bird plummeted out of the sky onto the right-hand grass verge, grabbed its dinner and took off again, at which point Bev recognised the distinctive markings of a sparrowhawk.

And as if that wasn't enough, she was heading home between the M1 and Barton Le Clay, when she spotted what looked like a white paper bag drifting across the field towards the car. As it got closer, she realised that it was flapping its wings, and as it skimmed over the roof of the car she could see that it was an owl - possibly a barn owl! Wow, Bev felt really priviledged to have seen all that wildlife on her way home from work. The scenery on her commute is very pretty, but to see such impressive wildlife as well is such a bonus!

For us bears, the only thing more impressive than live wildlife is roadkill - I know that seeing a sparrowhawk catching its dinner and seeing an owl is pretty special, but we bears would have been more impressed if she had brought us home some roadkill to munch on while listening to her tales of wildlife on the way home from work.