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Had a rat in my downstairs lav.luckily it had drowned and it flushed away.missus scared stiff of rats so I haven't mentioned it to her.might do when I have had few beers in company tho.on brighter note was couple of deer in woods on dog walk earlier

Are you saying you found it already drowned in the toilet bowl? Suicide or a freak accident do you reckon?

Seen some rabbits where I walk the dog. I call it the Rough Ground - Thurrock have loftily called it a " Nature Reserve ". The Pikeys regard it as their very own scramble area. When we had the wet spell earlier, they caused unbelievable damage with their quad bikes. Every year I used hear & see quite a lot of larks. Only saw them a couple of times in March. They have probably gone to quieter pastures.

Had a pheasant by the back door the other day which sh*t me up when I took the bins out.

Regularly get two muntjacs at the end of the garden most mornings and not sure if it’s lack of traffic but the birds at 5am are so f*cking loud

Celtient wrote: ↑Sun Apr 26, 2020 2:48 pm Are you saying you found it already drowned in the toilet bowl? Suicide or a freak accident do you reckon?

It was drowned already.glad i wasn't sitting on toilet when it appeared.could be case of either or even murder.
Agree birds are noisy first thing.

Perhaps the rat injected itself with Domestos. Anything is possible according to the orange baboon.

Foxes seem to be raiding the bins on our street regularly since lockdown. Less food for them elsewhere?

We’ve got a pair of partridges taken up residence in the garden, but then we feed the birds, and they pick up what’s spilt on the ground. Seen a couple of non-regular small birds at the feeders recently: linnets, yellowhammers and blackcaps. The dog seems to stop other visiting mammals other than the mice which live under the shed.

Lots more butterflies (both numbers and varieties) around the last few weeks. Which is fine as long as the cabbage whites keep away from the veg patch.

Prestige Worldwide wrote: ↑Sun Apr 26, 2020 3:16 pm Foxes seem to be raiding the bins on our street regularly since lockdown. Less food for them elsewhere?

Foxes, generally, will avoid contact with humans so as there are less people around the foxes will scavenge in areas they normally wouldn't.

I think there are a couple of chimps taken up residence in whats growing on top of my head

The wild boar over here in France are driving me potty. They're persistent little farquhars and have decided that my garden needs to be rotovated every night. Last year we had our dog with us and they left us alone. Sadly, Stan is no longer with us and the boars (sangliers) are making hay in his absence. I've now upgraded the electric fence, put physical barriers in the undergrowth, and it's war from now on. My money's on them.

We've got a long garden, and every morning we're treated to a family of fox cubs playing at the far end. They're still at that cute stage, before they become pests.

BoniO wrote: ↑Sun Apr 26, 2020 5:34 pm The wild boar over here in France are driving me potty. They're persistent little farquhars and have decided that my garden needs to be rotovated every night. Last year we had our dog with us and they left us alone. Sadly, Stan is no longer with us and the boars (sangliers) are making hay in his absence. I've now upgraded the electric fence, put physical barriers in the undergrowth, and it's war from now on. My money's on them.

Don't think of them as a threat.

Think of them as... dinner.

Sheep and new born lambs in field on one side. Alpacas in the field on the other. Horses to the side of them. Lots of rabbits, moles, pheasants. We have chickens. It’s like a zoo. Birds seem extra loud at the moment. Seem to be enjoying the cleaner air.

Beradogs wrote: ↑Sun Apr 26, 2020 6:44 pm Sheep and new born lambs in field on one side. Alpacas in the field on the other. Horses to the side of them. Lots of rabbits, moles, pheasants. We have chickens. It’s like a zoo. Birds seem extra loud at the moment. Seem to be enjoying the cleaner air.

Without humans around our native fauna are taking back control.

Would my neighbour count? They wandered out the front of their house the other day.

My daughter heard a mum say to her daughter that the earth is cleaning itself.wonder if she had a point

Fuckin birds and it’s only going to get worse - 2 months time and it’ll be 3.30am

A young son turned around to his mother in a field that they we're picking potatoes a local farmer was giving away and said "I thought you got them in Asda". My young niece from London couldn't believe what carrots looked like freshly picked from the ground last year. How times had changed.

Foxes in my village pretty standard, other half even feeds them late afternoons they come and wait in back garden for food or when dark start calling out front, the ducks from one of village ponds, come back to sunbath in front garden, then scarper before foxy arrive, pheasants now appearing. lock down certainly helps wild life

point nine one eight wrote: ↑Mon Apr 27, 2020 9:08 am Foxes in my village pretty standard, other half even feeds them late afternoons they come and wait in back garden for food or when dark start calling out front, the ducks from one of village ponds, come back to sunbath in front garden, then scarper before foxy arrive, pheasants now appearing. lock down certainly helps wild life

Why would you feed foxes? They are noxious pests in a village or urban environment.

We are close to the sea here in deepest, darkest Suffolk. As the food waste on the seafront is now nil, less seagulls as according to a Beeb article seagulls have to go inland to the waste dumps to feed now. As a result loads more pigeons around. Roosting on the window sills, and sh*****g onto the patio and cars below. Urgh. Apart from that due to staying in ain't seen any change in the wildlife.

BoniO wrote: ↑Sun Apr 26, 2020 5:34 pm The wild boar over here in France are driving me potty. They're persistent little farquhars and have decided that my garden needs to be rotovated every night. Last year we had our dog with us and they left us alone. Sadly, Stan is no longer with us and the boars (sangliers) are making hay in his absence. I've now upgraded the electric fence, put physical barriers in the undergrowth, and it's war from now on. My money's on them.

Can’t you poison them?

Disoriented wrote: ↑Mon Apr 27, 2020 9:27 am

point nine one eight wrote: ↑Mon Apr 27, 2020 9:08 am Foxes in my village pretty standard, other half even feeds them late afternoons they come and wait in back garden for food or when dark start calling out front, the ducks from one of village ponds, come back to sunbath in front garden, then scarper before foxy arrive, pheasants now appearing. lock down certainly helps wild life

Why would you feed foxes? They are noxious pests in a village or urban environment.

I don't, she does, Women have a "thing" about feeding animals, being as they don't kill any of our stock animals then in her mind whats wrong in feeding them our scraps, the badgers are the head honchos in the pecking order and keep them in their place

Stamford O wrote: ↑Sun Apr 26, 2020 2:10 pm Had a rat in my downstairs lav.luckily it had drowned and it flushed away.missus scared stiff of rats so I haven't mentioned it to her.might do when I have had few beers in company tho.on brighter note was couple of deer in woods on dog walk earlier

FFS don't let Chris Packham know, he'll want a police investigation.