I had just told my friend Alison that I had never seen a deer in Catalonia, when she looked across a field and exclaimed "There's a deer!" We watched it for a while and then it spotted us and bounded off into the trees. We were walking in the fields, woodland and along the streams next to the small village of Cantonigròs. We saw jays, frogs, robins, butterflies, lizards and crickets on our walk. We did not see any people and the peace and tranquility was nourishing. Listening to the birds, hearing the wind in the trees, the croak of the frogs, the flow of the river. Natural sounds are so soothing and we felt fortunate to be in a place away from the noise of people and traffic. Unfortunately, humans are present in this landscape too and they have an impact on the wildlife: we saw two dead salamanders that had been run over and squashed on the track. However, I prefer to take the memory of the deer (I think it was a red deer though I am not sure) with me as the highlight of our outing.
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| Red deer / Cérvol (Cervus elaphus) |
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| Frog (or toad?) |
