Our Untamed World

Oh for a glimpse in an untamed world
Sneaks a rusty red male fox 
With his bushy tail curled
Amidst the bracken overgrowth
This sly smooth operator is feeding his new born cubs
Furtively crawling undisturbing a golden comet chicken devouring tasty grubs

Clambering up a scots wood pine as nimble as a monkey
Gathering his nobbly nuts 
Courageous & secretively spunky
Storing his piles of foraged fodder, fruit, nuts & seeds
The rare red squirrel seeks 
sanctuary in an oak hollow & feeds

In our countryside heathlands & moorlands
At dusk or at dawn
If you are fortunate you may chance on a roe deer fawn
So small & elegant with a summer coat of reddish brown
Friskily playing with a small group of siblings jumping up & down

Oh how scenically beautiful 
Is our wilderness of woodlands
Such bountifuls of everchanging
Colourful visions that only nature understands
Freedom for forest creatures
To roam & dwell within
Natural habitats so well camouflaged with each animal skin