It’s a day late, but better late then never. So yesterday I had visits from a royal, more specifically, the king of the forest, the elk.
I was sitting by the window in front of my computer, eating breakfast and having a fresh cup of coffee, as I always do in the morning, when suddenly I heard quite allot of heavy breathing and stomping outside my window. First thing I see, is a big elk calf running by my window. Safe to say I was stunned for a second or two, but came to my senses and reached for my camera, so I could snap some pictures of it.

The elk ran back and forth behind our neighbors house for a little while, trying to find a way to get out, before settling in one corner to catch it’s breath. At the same time a girl came out from one of the buildings, blissfully unaware of the huge animal lurking right around the corner. Thankfully for her sake it didn’t pop it’s mighty head out and frighten the wits out of the girl, but at the same time I kind of doubt she’d even notice. She seemed way to tired to be even aware of what was happening nearby.

After catching it’s breath for a second, the elk decided it was time to move on. So instead of going back from where it came, it jumped a 2 meters tall rusty old fence and continued behind our house and into the street on the other side.

I by then had managed to snap a couple of ok shots, which I decided I’d might as well send to the local newspaper, Adressa. Little did I know they would actually call me, and do a short interview. An excerpt of what I said can be found here. Safe to say it’s exaggerated quite allot… Anyway, when I came to work I continued to keep track on the news, checking what was going on with the elk. Turns out he had continued running, and ended up getting himself stuck in a fence. The police and animal authorities sadly had to take its life.
Oh, and they also called me from the radio, and had a short chat with me.

All in all, quite an interesting day I must say :p