OK. OK. I'll put you out of your misery.

The short, 30s video below, shot with my smartphone two days ago, will reveal to you the mystery animal that crossed the road in front of me, on my walk on Tuesday.

Did you guess correctly, then?

You'll also, I hope, understand after watching this video, why I titled this blog post "Why?"

I also called this photo below  "Why..." - a photo that I hoped would make me a million pounds. But sadly that didn't happen in this day and age of photoshop!

(For the record, the photo below, which is printed onto a large canvas, hung on our hall wall at home and always gets a nice comment or two from visitors (corrr... remember them? Visitors?!) is not a photoshopped photo. The hen was my champion egg-layer a few years ago. "Couven" was her name. And the photo was shot just after dawn, on a summer's morning about ten years ago, on Swainstone Road, Reading - about a mile from where my wife and I used to live at the time...

Why?