[Anthony B]

WHAT - you modest???? hahahaha

Love the wildlife stories here.

Post WW2, the Belgian government decided that in order to supply more sites to build houses close to cities/towns, instead of re-zoning entire areas, they decreed that 1/8th acre plots along the edges of the farms, would be rezoned for housing. This allowed the farmers to continue, gave them income from the sales of the plots, and allowed new families to build houses. So in our neighbourhood, that is only 25 mins from centre of Brussels, we still have a lot of farms, which encourages a lot of wildlife. A lot of owls inhabit the area - although we dont see them often, birds, waterfowl, squirrels hedgehogs.

i walk the dogs every afternoon and feed some abandoned deer in a property down near a river near us. (Old owner rushed to hospital a few years ago) and now in old age home. We  tried to get them rehomed, but they fall into a group of animals that are classified as wild and thus are not covered in law in terms of anyone owning responsibility for their car - hence my wife and I stepping in.....