Well it's not quite spring yet, but the bulbs are sending up their shoots and the days are getting longer.
Here's the wildlife I've seen in the past week:-
- A Fox (or possibly a large cat)
- A collared dove
- A rat (either the same rat on two consecutive days, or two rats)
- A robin
- Two sparrows
- Some kind of finch
- A Starling
Coincidentally I think I saw the same rats, or should I say vermin, but they were having a fight in the streets just after the pubs shut!
ReplyDeletePerhaps this is a sub species of the genus Drinkalot fightalot that seems to only come out late at nights and in urban connurbations.
p.s. nice photo
My rat(s) was/were a proper countryside rat. It was drinking cider and smiling.
DeleteThanks for the compliment on the photo. I'll forward it on to the person I nicked it from.
'person I nicked it from.' - so impersonnating Anonymous posters and 'nicking' others photos - anything you would not stoop too?
DeleteYou've got me wrong. I don't impersonate Anonymous posters. I impersonate old pals from the MEN and characters from the Simpsons.
DeleteI think the Anonymous poster is real, so to speak.
You've not taken me to task for the made up stories. I suppose that's legitimate journalism.
Perhaps I should have put a ':)' at the end of my last comment rather than a '?' or perhaps both!
Delete'You've not taken me to task for the made up stories' - I am hardly in a position to do that am I. In fact I think that would be a case of pot calling kettle...
I took part in the RSPB birdwatching event.This is the reason I was carping about high street shopping and bird tables in an earlier post.You had to pick an hour on the 20 something of January and count the birds that landed in your garden.They had to land,hovering was not allowed.1 robin 2 magpies,2 blackbirds 1 crow type bird and 32 seagulls. I have an unidentified beast that's been eating my left over chicken carcasses and I'm pretty sure I saw a frog poke it's head out of my lil pond this morning.I'm hoping it's the same frog that was here last year,he was so cool.He would lean on his little elbows with his face in his hands dangling over the side of the pond.his legs splayed out behind him.Thinking about it he was probably electrocuted because he didn't move for hours and I sometimes get a shock when I touch the water.
ReplyDelete'and I sometimes get a shock when I touch the water' - do you normally electrify your body? I have images of you walking round dragging a mains cable with you.
DeleteSadly there are no birds in my garden. I leave out seeds and coconuts but I only get squirrels.
DeleteBut I like squirrels so that's ok, even though they've twice surprised me and nearly made me fall over. Once was a grey squirrel that jumped up and made me slip on some ice, and once was a red squirrel in the lake district that distracted me and made me slip on a stone.
Once the weather improves, I'll publish "Chough's Roadkill Roundup". When it comes to animals vs the motorised menace, I'm firmly on the animals side - desperately trying to avoid getting squished.
ReplyDeleteOh good, a story about cyclists at last !
DeleteI could have a daily column entitled 'which brand of 4x4 tried to kill me today'.
DeleteWhen I woke up last Saturday morning at 11am I looked in the mirror....have I spotted a lazy b*tch?
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