targa 5 Posted September 21, 2006 Report Share Posted September 21, 2006 A Linx. al those years we hunted in the Ardennes, Luxembourg, Germany.. never saw one. not at night or in daylight. And everyone was talking about there re-introduction and the trails and prey they found... and we never see one! in 25 years. pitty Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Ditch_Shitter Posted September 22, 2006 Report Share Posted September 22, 2006 That's bloody bad luck, Targa. I once had occassion to ask, on a North American Fur Trappers forum, if any of those boys ever saw Lynx / Bobcat. By about the fifth page of affirmatives, often backed up with glorious photographs, I was beggining to get the message! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mackem 23,801 Posted September 22, 2006 Report Share Posted September 22, 2006 Spoke to a pakistani subsistence farmer/shepherd living in the Khunjerab National park who trapped a small number of snow leopard every year and sold the skins for a pittance(I bought one for $70)at Kashgar market.He was 50+ years old,but could count on the fingers of one hand the number of cats he had encountered on mountain slopes and glacial valleys(aside from the ones in his foot-hold traps)during a lifetime in the area Quote Link to post Share on other sites
rip 0 Posted October 29, 2006 Report Share Posted October 29, 2006 See practically every thing bar a live badger, seen em on telly, seen em dead by the road but never seen one in the wild. we probably see more badgers than rabbits down our way there everywhere Quote Link to post Share on other sites
blackpack 70 Posted October 31, 2006 Report Share Posted October 31, 2006 See practically every thing bar a live badger, seen em on telly, seen em dead by the road but never seen one in the wild. we probably see more badgers than rabbits down our way there everywhere also falcons red kites now coming back, nice to see so many brock Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest The Shaman Posted October 31, 2006 Report Share Posted October 31, 2006 Me and Dandyman where having a drive about on our site to kill some time in the Landrover and I kid you not we saw at lease 10 different Hares - quite a few different shades too. Some would spook and go like the clappers for about 200 yards - a couple would lazily plod off and one cheeky fecker just eyed us up about 10 yards away - ignored me when I rolled the window down, and only moved when I opened the door :11: bold as brass. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest midnight_runner Posted November 4, 2006 Report Share Posted November 4, 2006 Never seen a wild mink loads of grass snakes,adders etc plenty of badgers when I lived in Durham.One thing I see every single day without fail is a flock of wild parrots,yeah,right here in the uk was working down in maidenhead sean a flock of parrots had to look twice Quote Link to post Share on other sites
elma-fudd 0 Posted November 4, 2006 Report Share Posted November 4, 2006 Never seen a wild mink loads of grass snakes,adders etc plenty of badgers when I lived in Durham.One thing I see every single day without fail is a flock of wild parrots,yeah,right here in the uk one of ma dogs killed a mink this summer its mam ran of and left the young one under a river bank dog was blowing bubbles and out came the mink in its mouth,av also seen a slow worm like a mini snake 1 in a lifetime sighting. i was alos fishing up in westeross,scotland for mackrel and otter pinched 1 of ma fish it was nice to see Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mackem 23,801 Posted November 5, 2006 Report Share Posted November 5, 2006 Midnight,Maidenhead is closeby,I saw several hundred parrots today,very vocal and very visible elma,theres lots of slow worms locally,havent seen an otter here though I have seen them in sutherland and caithness Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Dillon Posted November 8, 2006 Report Share Posted November 8, 2006 can't think of many animals/mammals in the Uk that I haven't seen, I have been walking the fields and forests since I was knee high, when you root about to that extent then you see most things, I would like to observe a Pine Marten, (seen a dead one) and a coypu, Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Aled 364 Posted November 8, 2006 Report Share Posted November 8, 2006 Used to say "i'd love to see otters back in the valley" well they are back and in force. Every single nights sea trout fishing one turns up. And they are not shy either, up to your waist in water over they come to scare the life out of you when you are concentraiting on your fishing, quite unconcerned about the damage they could do to your nuts with those teeth!!! :11: Anyway have never seen a live wild adder (did find a dead one once) and apparently there are still some pine martens in Wales??? Cheers Aled Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Simoman 110 Posted November 11, 2006 Report Share Posted November 11, 2006 Midnight,Maidenhead is closeby,I saw several hundred parrots today,very vocal and very visible elma,theres lots of slow worms locally,havent seen an otter here though I have seen them in sutherland and caithness mackem are they ring necked parakeets? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest markbrick1 Posted November 13, 2006 Report Share Posted November 13, 2006 never seen a munkjak seen loads of badgers see them most nights and seen the wild cat down here watched it for about 2 minutes walkin under a pillon with a rabbit in its mouth so i could judge his size Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest midnight_runner Posted November 13, 2006 Report Share Posted November 13, 2006 it would have to be the nothern lights for me amazin Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mackem 23,801 Posted November 13, 2006 Report Share Posted November 13, 2006 Midnight,Maidenhead is closeby,I saw several hundred parrots today,very vocal and very visible elma,theres lots of slow worms locally,havent seen an otter here though I have seen them in sutherland and caithness mackem are they ring necked parakeets? Theres reckoned to be over 7000 ring necked in the area,but we also have a small colony of orange-winged parakeets up the road in weybridge,local twitchers were delighted last year when a peregrine which frequented the area began targetting the birds Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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