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COUNTRY REFLECTIONS

DAVID KAVANAGH

PIKE: how we caught the staring terror of the haunted pond

PIKE: how we caught the staring terror of the haunted pond

IF you're talking predatory freshwater fish, there's one that springs immediately to the fore - that King of the Killers, that Great...

DRAGONFLY: savage beauty of a summer killer

DRAGONFLY: savage beauty of a summer killer

MY six year-old daughter saw it first, letting out a cry of fright as it skimmed the surface of the small pond in the garden of her...

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Extracted from A COUNTRY PILLOW BOOK

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Below 'The Foodies' Food & Drink Quiz' by the same author. See also 'The UK

Travel Quiz'.

PIKE: how we caught the staring terror of the haunted pond

MALLARD: the cheery duck that saved me from a beating

COW: mothering instinct puts our own crying baby in peril

TAWNY OWL: face to face in a rain-drenched hollybush

RAT: shock in an African hut replaced by admiration

FOX: hunt gives pause for thought as death comes slowly

HEDGEHOG: garden visitor with a taste for chip shop batter

WASP: two painful encounters with this small angry menace

DRAGONFLY: savage beauty of a summer killer

GREY SQUIRREL: American import defeats a British cat

BADGER: mighty burrower needs to keep its head down again

FROG: pond study leads me to take a sudden unwelcome dip

BLUE-TIT: water pistol drives off marauding predators

HARE: arriving unannounced by crashing through a hedge

MOUSE: great white hunter sets out to bag the interloper

KESTREL: predator dines royally at a town centre car park

SHEEP: a golden labrador loses his lustre when he slips leash

PIGEON: cruelty of a perverted mind ended many lives

WEASEL: ferocious predator a blur as it closes in on its victim

WREN: noisy mother so staunch in defence of her newborn

MAGPIE: a neighbour's pet killed by a spot of DIY wizardry

STARLING: a lucky escape from depths of my kitchen wall

MOLE: preposterous mammal that inspired a morbid poet

SWAN: sad story of beauty and the beasts

PHEASANT: sad tale of a former hunter

SWALLOW: snatching insects inches away from a jagged roof

CHICKENS: jolted awake by a noisy newcomer

BLACKBIRD: one-eyed victim takes its chances

RABBIT: how two pets were driven to an early grave

LIZARD: escaping motorbikes and cats

CATS: ruthless enemies of our garden birds

SKYLARK: when a perfect summer's day goes wrong

ANTS: savage fire game almost ended in disaster

CROW: last laugh for a bird of ill-omen

CUCKOO: treacherous visitor on a deadly mission

RAM: fancy footwork needed to avoid being flattened

PIKE: how we caught the staring terror of the haunted pond

PIKE: how we caught the staring terror of the haunted pond

MALLARD: the cheery duck that saved me from a beating

MALLARD: the cheery duck that saved me from a beating

COW: mothering instinct puts our own crying baby in peril

COW: mothering instinct puts our own crying baby in peril

TAWNY OWL: face to face in a rain-drenched hollybush

TAWNY OWL: face to face in a rain-drenched hollybush

RAT: shock in an African hut replaced by admiration

RAT: shock in an African hut replaced by admiration

FOX: hunt gives pause for thought as death comes slowly

FOX: hunt gives pause for thought as death comes slowly

HEDGEHOG: garden visitor with a taste for chip shop batter

HEDGEHOG: garden visitor with a taste for chip shop batter

WASP: two painful encounters with this small angry menace

WASP: two painful encounters with this small angry menace

DRAGONFLY: savage beauty of a summer killer

DRAGONFLY: savage beauty of a summer killer

GREY SQUIRREL: American import defeats a British cat

GREY SQUIRREL: American import defeats a British cat

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