Assaulted by an Angry Arctic Skua Then Feeding a Wild Red Deer Stag on a Mountainside

<p>During my many stravaigings and meanderings up down and across this country I call home, it has been my fortune, my pleasure, to encounter some of the wonderful wildlife that occupies its rivers, mountains and glens.</p> <p>Many of these encounters were close and some were extremely close.</p> <p>Those who read may have read,&nbsp;<em>&lsquo;From Dumyat to Mont Blanc &mdash; being alive with mountains&rsquo;,&nbsp;</em>a selection of my mountaineering adventures, sometimes misadventures, perhaps will recall that I was once &lsquo;smote&rsquo; on the ear by a disorientated snipe, that I nearly stood on a lizard and on another occasion stumbled over a red deer fawn hidden in long ferns. All accidental.</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/between-mountain-and-sea-new-writing-from-todays/assaulted-by-an-angry-arctic-skua-then-feeding-a-wild-red-deer-stag-on-a-mountainside-23a137c1b851"><strong>Website</strong></a></p>