I am spending quite a lot of time outdoor: running, hiking, walking to work, walking to school, walking around… but I realise that it is very difficult to see and pictured an animal. When we meet up suddenly with a wild creature, either we are scared that it will fight, or scared that it might run away… and we are not fast enough to make a picture, or the light is bad, or they are eventually too far, or you are wearing gloves and can’t turn on your phone, or, or, or…
The house where I currently live is located in the woods, and deers and squirrels are coming relatively close: they are not afraid because hunting is forbidden on the island. But still, I hear them when it is dark – and they run away – but I can’t barely catch them.
Luckily, last morning I could make a small picture…. they were 3 of them, so I got the last in the queue! I was talking to them, introducing myself, but they eventually vanished….
One day I had a very serious discussion with an encounter. It was in Singapore, a morning as I went to work, on this long and steep staircase where I rarely came across anybody. We spent a relatively long time together, the hornbill and myself… there was no doubt it had a lot to explain before flying off, changing position, probably thinking a bit, and looking at me while squealing and squeaking some birds-words. This was really a magic moment.
I know there are mooses in Maine, one say that they sometimes cross the bridge and visit the island, but no moose live on the island. I hope I’ll be lucky to meet one of them one day!
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