- Location
- London
Yes I was a bit scared, but it came and went very quickly. If you hit a badger I imagine it would bring you off. If you did hit one, are you likely to get attacked? I understand that when roused they can be vicious/dangerous.Badgers can be remarkably fast moving. I've had a couple of very close misses with badgers that zoomed out into the road in the night. Also watch out for deer (day and night).
Moving on from owls I had a really lovely daytime encounter with a kestrel(?): It flew along just ahead of me, at my pace (maybe 25-30 kmh) quite low to the ground, flicking from side to side between the hedges. Went on for a couple of hundred metres.
Not much you can do about watching out for deer I think - day or night. They have a habit of just vaulting hedges, crossing the road, vaulting the opposite one. One did that it front of a ride I was leading once. A fair chance one of us could have been seriously injured/even killed.