Whilst bird watching in Thailand. I stayed at the
Nam Nao National Park. One day I decided to take one of the longer trails to
see if I could find some elephants as I had been told they were in the local
area and if I was very lucky maybe I would also catch a glimpse of a tiger.
As I crossed a clearing heading for some high
ground, I had an image in my mind of a tiger walking towards me, did this mean
that a tiger had passed down this very trail some hours earlier or was it a
vision of what was to come? Either way I felt very excited by the prospect of
both but more of the latter. As I approached the high ground which leads into
dense undergrowth I heard a flock of Jays causing a real commotion this caused
me to stop, I was very aware that they were warning of potential danger close
by.
As I looked down the trail and into the
undergrowth, suddenly I heard an almighty crash and my heart missed a few
beats. My immediate thought was that the sound had been made by an elephant, so
I waited to see if it would appear around the bend of the trail, nothing came
then I began to think perhaps it was a tiger charging though the undergrowth
after some deer or something, my heart raced even more, what would I do if it
was a tiger?
After a while the Jays began to settle down at
which point I felt it was ok to move forward to investigate what the noise was,
I soon discovered a very large branch some twenty meters long by about one
meter thick laying on top of a clump of large bamboo. I realised had the Jays
not kicked off, the time it would have taken me to walk from the ridge to this
very spot, would have been around the same time this tree sized branch had
crashed down, I would have been if not under it certainly very close to where
it had landed.
I realised the Jays had saved me from some serious
injuries at the very least or even from death itself.
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