My commute was better than yours.....

[Dave 123]

Not only was it pleasantly mild this morning, but as I rode down the cycle path through the back of the west Cambridge site a Barn Owl appeared flying down the field edge to my right. I slowed up and let it get in front of me. We spent the next 300 yds together, he was looking for breakfast, I had a smile wide enough to swallow a cow!

He stopped and hovvered for a second, then carried on to the corner of the field where he alighted on a fence post, turned and looked toward me, then flew off.

Never seen one there before, and probably never will, but I'll always look now...

 

[clid61]

Seeing as its Panto season , "Oh no it wasn't!" Bet that was brilliant to witness, I see the odd fox scowling at me

 

[Shut Up Legs]

So you both had a hoot?

 

[clid61]

Haha, the owld ones are the best !

 

[Shut Up Legs]

I tried a similar commute-sharing once with a kookaburra, but for some stupid reason it just laughed at me.

 

[Turbo Rider]

Yep, you did. All I got was traffic jams and rain in the face. Another rider, I call him The Traffic Slicer, flew past me at some point though, making a proper terwit of me too(woo).

 

[Leaway2]

a proper terwit of me too(woo).

Ouch!

 

[annedonnelly]

Marvellous, lucky you.

Seeing wildlife always makes me smile too. Passers by must sometimes wonder what I'm grinning at when I've just see a weasel, kestrel, mouse or something.

 

[mythste]

This happened to me before christmas, but in the dark with a bat playing in and out of my ridiculous CREE beam. A good quarter of a mile he was dancing in and out. Wonderful!

 

[HorTs]

I've had a badger jump out in front of me then try to run away but we were going about the same speed so he just kept glancing up in a 'why haven't you gone yet?' kind of way.

 

[Dave 123]

And the same show today....!

 

[Maylian]

Sounds great, I've had similar before with a sparrow hawk flying with me through Southampton common. Makes it feel very special and another reason cycling is nicer than driving.

 

[Drago]

Most of my commute is rural and I regularly see owl, deer, badgers, doggers etc.

 

[HOU5EY]

I was once lucky enough to have a white stag standing proudly in my path. I actually had to stop as it stood and looked at me, probably confused by my high vis jacket. After a few seconds he and a few other deer hopped the fence into the field beside . A very lucky sight to see.