Do you ever see wild animals?

First up there’s the squirrels

We see them every day

Competing with the garden birds

For seeds we have left out.

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I can see a nuthatch now

It’s feeding upside down.

Soon there’ll be goldfinches

And blackbirds on the ground.

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There’ll be loads of pigeons

Feral parakeets.

Blue tits, great tits, coal tits

All of those will come.

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Greater spotted woodpecker

He will come along.

Starlings, magpies, robin

Red Kites in the sky.

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Sometimes there’s a Heron

Comes to get our fish.

We’ve even had a sparrow hawk

Drop down from the sky.

Occasionally in dark of night

An owl up in the tree.

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And don’t forget the swans,

the ducks and other river birds

We are near the River Thames

And see them all the time.

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Sometimes in the garden

More often in the street

We will see an urban fox

In search of stuff to eat.

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Foxes are quite fearless

And will not run away

They will simply stare at you

And then just slink away.

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We’re near to Windsor Great Park

And see a lot of deer.

Mostly larger roe deer

But sometimes muntjac too.

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Then of course there’s rodents

Hope not to see a rat

But often there are field mice

Or perhaps a vole.

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