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great stories chaps!

Olly wrote: ↑Sun Apr 19, 2020 3:52 pm Barbel fishing the Kennet nearing midnight - black as black!...
... A pair of bucks must have been jousting with each other, the one near me having lost the battle - I had had visions before of wild pig, giant otters, lion due to the roaring -- all obviously totally unfounded!! Was I relieved!!

Yes, the silence and darkness of the night can certainly play tricks with the mind.
Fishing on a remote canal, a water vole chews on a reed, and you'd swear blind it was a horse, at least!

As a lad, I used to take my turn doing doing the night shift in lambing time.
All the sheep had been brought up into the "home paddock", where it was easier to keep an eye out for ewes needing a helping hand.
Many a time I was dozing in the hut between rounds, when I was shocked into wakefulness by an old sheep coughing its lungs out.
And I fear that some on here will disbelieve me, but it's a fact that a lamb has shouted to me in the early hours - "Dave!"
Scared me silly.