[ILoveTRW]

either because you never thought you would see one in the wild or you just didn't know what the **** it was.

3 occasions i can recall.
On holiday in Skye I saw an Otter and a Common Adder, and on the streets of Frigiliana I saw a Preying Mantis.

[Boothy]

If by stumble across, you mean saw in The Metro, then this. Even so, it still had the same 'wow' factor about it.

[Benjamin]

Yep, several times. I once saw a mole poking its head out of its hole, I stumbled across a porcupine in Oz, a group of Kangaroo's that were drinking as the sun was coming up in the outback, and when I was a kid a wild squirrel in the park jumped onto my shoulder and down my arm to collect the nuts in my hand, that was cool.

[MTVN]

Yeah, I saw a goat tied to a red telephone box once

[CharlieO]

There was a massive 6ft spitting cobra in our family kitchen. I didn't think so much 'wow' but 'save me jesus'.

[Bollo]

When i saw a peacock for the first time, they so pretty. Also an octopus I once met was strangely beautiful

[Smithy]

I saw a deer in the middle of a road in quite a built up area once

[LaLaLand]

I once mistook a grass snake for a stick when I was really young playing outside my Auntie's farm house. I picked it up thinking it was a plain old stick but it wriggled out of my hand and onto my lap and all this, terrified me at first but I think it kind of started my love of snakes. My Dad made sure it wasn't an Adder (the venomous ones) and I held it and stuff, really cool.

Also on holiday in Malta I saw a chameleon climbing onto our balcony, was really gorge.

[Kizzy]

Sea creatures are amazing, seahorses and deep sea neon thingies.....fab!