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, <em>‘From Dumyat to Mont Blanc — being alive with mountains’, </em>a selection of my mountaineering adventures, sometimes misadventures, perhaps will recall that I was once ‘smote’ 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>
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