Wildlife

[Didsbury Dave]

Driving home tonight I saw what I immediately recognised as a juvenile magpie hopping along the pavement. 30 years up the road I saw a massive cat. Two adult magpies were standing facing it off, flying at it and making a racket. I couldn’t believe how brave they were. I stopped the car and got out. The juvenile had obviously just fledged and couldn’t fly properly, the cat was stalking it and the magpies were trying to see it off. I tried to save the baby but if flapped off into a bush behind a fence and I couldn’t get to it. The cat got behind the same fence.

the outcome was Inevitable and there was nothing I could do.

 

[ZebraVicar]

A few weeks back I saw 2 foxes strolling down our Street at 10.00hrs on a Sunday morning. I've seen and heard them at night but never during the day. Looked like a Mother with large Cub.

 

[dronefromsector7G]

A muntjac outside my nan’s house in Norfolk today

 

[Djibrilshairdo]

Been up in North Yorkshire a couple of years now, winter months bring us fantastic starling murmurations, not seen the like since I was a kid. Amazing sight from a distance, grim watching if underneath. Unless you’re Ashley Young.

 

[Blue Boy 63]

My mate waiting for his tea !

 

[J.G.Blue.]

Funny just reading this thread & wondered what the noise outside the window was, a parent blue tit was showing three young fledglings how to find grubs, spiders etc on a rose bush, quite comical to see the little birds swinging around on the long thin shoots, just hope the magpies are busy somewhere else for a while, cheered me up no end :-)
(now does anyone know how to kill a mole, the little bastard keep digging up my lawn!)

 

[Saddleworth2]

Driving home tonight I saw what I immediately recognised as a juvenile magpie hopping along the pavement. 30 years up the road I saw a massive cat. Two adult magpies were standing facing it off, flying at it and making a racket. I couldn’t believe how brave they were. I stopped the car and got out. The juvenile had obviously just fledged and couldn’t fly properly, the cat was stalking it and the magpies were trying to see it off. I tried to save the baby but if flapped off into a bush behind a fence and I couldn’t get to it. The cat got behind the same fence.

the outcome was Inevitable and there was nothing I could do.

You did save other baby birds that the juvenile magpie would have invariably eaten :-)
Nature - red in teeth and claw and beak.

 

[Kippaxpete]

We get deer in the back field, and I've caught a badger in the headlights some time back that scuttled between us and next door. Birds aplenty. Thankfully, no vermin.

Nowhere near Merseyside then.

 

[andyhinch]

A muntjac outside my nan’s house in Norfolk today

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Bloody foreign deer coming over here and eating our leaves !!!

 

[Tuearts right boot]

Funny just reading this thread & wondered what the noise outside the window was, a parent blue tit was showing three young fledglings how to find grubs, spiders etc on a rose bush, quite comical to see the little birds swinging around on the long thin shoots, just hope the magpies are busy somewhere else for a while, cheered me up no end :-)
(now does anyone know how to kill a mole, the little bastard keep digging up my lawn!)

You can buy traps from decent garden centres/farm suppliers or on line. They make a lovely pair of trousers if you catch enough.