Urban wildlife.

[Welsh_red 4,307]

36 minutes ago, shaaark said:

The river taff, south wales, which I've lived less than 300 yards from for most of my life, in different areas, is now among the 10 cleanest rivers in britain. Kingfishers, dippers, wagtails, mallards, widgeon, grebes, little and great crested, and a host of other birds and wildlife, are regularly seen, including otters, that two of my mates have seen,but I've still yet to see one, and I've fished and walked many stretches of it regularly. Great for salmon, sewin, and brilliant for brown trout and grayling.

Otters, increasing everywhere, even on my local river which I frequent very regularly, and I've never seen one. And people doubt that big cats can go undetected in this country lol

Ill be working in porth by the river soon . Might take a rod

[shaaark 10,133]

27 minutes ago, mackem said:

Theres a million pics,corpses etc of otters in the UK in the wild and dead on roads,no doubting their existance,they are indigenous british wildlife and classified as such,bad analogy to a fictional creature,these were taken in sunderland,broad daylight,are there any similar of big cats?

 

I very well know otters are indigenous to the uk, and even at their lowest numbers, they still would've been far more common than non indigenous big cats. I, and almost every person I know, have NEVER seen a wild otter, and only  two people I know, one a part time bailiff on the taff, has only seen two, in about 10 years, the other, sadly passed away a couple of years ago, general countryman and superb angler, that fished the taff all his life, saw one, about 6 years ago.

IF there are big cats living wild in britain, there aint going to be that many of them for obvious reasons, and they certainly wouldn't be seen anywhere near as often as smaller indigenous wildlife.

[THE STIFFMEISTER 14,558]

On 28/08/2018 at 16:21, mackem said:

I am qualified to fly a paramotor mate,i completed the course,i was supposed to be going to laos in November to fly with some other guys but I will be elsewhere in asia trekking at the time sadly.

You look like one of those blokes if that cartoon “centurions “ from the 80s 

lookd great crack that 

[Greyman 25,255]

Saw this today, butterfly nest 

[mackem 23,776]

2 hours ago, THE STIFFMEISTER said:

You look like one of those blokes if that cartoon “centurions “ from the 80s 

lookd great crack that 

Its incredible fun,doesnt take long to get 1000's of feet up,and its surprisingly peaceful to motor along under the wing 

[Gilbey 1,408]

37 minutes ago, Greyman said:

Saw this today, butterfly nest 

moth caterpillars, remember seeing a pic of a car completely covered lol

[Greyman 25,255]

5 hours ago, mackem said:

Theres a million pics,corpses etc of otters in the UK in the wild and dead on roads,no doubting their existance,they are indigenous british wildlife and classified as such,bad analogy to a fictional creature,these were taken in sunderland,broad daylight,are there any similar of big cats?

 

The reason there are so many dead on roads and being seen by people is there has been a massive breed and release program running,in 4/5 years when they have naturalised again and the dumber ones are kerbside the sightings will tale off considerably

[Daniel cain 42,869]

4 hours ago, shaaark said:

I very well know otters are indigenous to the uk, and even at their lowest numbers, they still would've been far more common than non indigenous big cats. I, and almost every person I know, have NEVER seen a wild otter, and only  two people I know, one a part time bailiff on the taff, has only seen two, in about 10 years, the other, sadly passed away a couple of years ago, general countryman and superb angler, that fished the taff all his life, saw one, about 6 years ago.

IF there are big cats living wild in britain, there aint going to be that many of them for obvious reasons, and they certainly wouldn't be seen anywhere near as often as smaller indigenous wildlife.

otters on the river rhumney ,usk,back of Celtic manor,seen a few last few years

[Greyman 25,255]

I,ve seen six dead ones, three had drown after being released on a shipping canal which they could not get out of once they were in though the few native ones that have been there for years come in and out through small tributaries that join it, have seen 4 live ones and found one holt sorry no pics though I have got one camera out on a river I,ve seen a fresh  Spraint so maybe soon though it’s been up for a week and my daughter checked it yesterday and hadn’t turned it on

[jigsaw 11,809]

2 hours ago, Greyman said:

Saw this today, butterfly nest 

holy moly..thats something ive never seen before 

[shaaark 10,133]

32 minutes ago, jigsaw said:

holy moly..thats something ive never seen before 

You need to get out more, and remember to take a camera EVERY time

[jigsaw 11,809]

I've been out loads,never seen anything like that

[fireman 10,774]

Little fella i found at work yesterday...

[shaaark 10,133]

49 minutes ago, jigsaw said:

I've been out loads,never seen anything like that

Was just being facetious mate . Been out and about in the countryside all my life, and still haven't seen certain things that some people have seen, even though they've spent probably less than a hundredth the amount of time in the countryside than I have. And that's the point I've been trying to make. 

My 1st job, trainee underkeeper. 2nd job pest control. Kept and worked lurchers since the 70's, lived all my life surrounded by fields, woods etc. Fished the same river, taff, off and on for forty years, day and night, which has otters on, and I've still not seen one otter

[South hams hunter 8,837]

8 hours ago, fireman said:

Little fella i found at work yesterday...

We used to catch em but the bucket full as kids but the council turnt the one place we found them into grassland. I don't mean like a meadow either but short lawn type