ryaldinhio 4,135 Posted January 4, 2019 Report Share Posted January 4, 2019 When I was fishing in France a few years back in an March the heavens opened and the rain was bouncing down 5x heavier than anything I have seen in UK. Then swallows started falling from the sky, I mean in tens or twenties and bouncing off the bivvy, bite alarms going off when they hit rods, so surreal. The wind pushed to next corner in the lake and there were just hundreds and hundreds of dead swallows floating. A cockney fella in next peg reckoned they would've been near exhaustion on way back to UK and the heavy rain was the straw that broke the donkeys back n all that. 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jiggy 3,207 Posted January 4, 2019 Report Share Posted January 4, 2019 Seen a badger and fox in full battle with fur flying at entrance of an earth in early spring. The badger was blocking the entrance but the fox wasn't quitting and was hell bent on getting by. I presume the fox had cubs in there because she wasn't leaving the bigger foe but badger wanted to take over. I often wondered would a badger eat young fox cubs. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tilimangro 1,013 Posted January 4, 2019 Report Share Posted January 4, 2019 Stood in an orchard when the sky went black and buzzing as a bee swarm came over head when I was a kid I keep bees now and that swarm I saw back then was the biggest I’ve ever seen muust have been hundreds of thousand I saw what I only found out this year was a velvet cow killer ant as a kid too didn’t have a clue what that was !! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Francie 6,362 Posted January 4, 2019 Report Share Posted January 4, 2019 8 hours ago, Ted Newgent said: i have actually shot a fox up a tree,damn thing had used a fallen tree to climb up and 'nest' in the ivy. as i walked through i heard the rusttling,looked up,seen the fox,boom Good shot, but pics or it never happened mate Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Arry 18,588 Posted January 4, 2019 Report Share Posted January 4, 2019 7 hours ago, Jonjon79 said: I haven't really seen anything that interesting - the funniest was a seal popping up next to my sister when she was swimming in Cornwall in the early 90s It was in a harbour at st Ives and, so close that she could have touched it - they looked right at each other. .......... She absolutely shit it - I've never seen anyone swim so fast I went fishing for Huss one night, picked a nice little platform between Brixham and Dartmouth. It was getting twilight, casted both rods out and settled down lit a fag (smoked then) poured a cup of tea. Just take in the view etc, when all of a sudden a bloody great seal launched it self out of the water and landed at my feet, christ I nearly shit myself. I don't know who was most scared me or him, he turned and jumped back in. Cheers Arry 1 8 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
cragman 2,635 Posted January 4, 2019 Report Share Posted January 4, 2019 I watched a female cuckoo lay her egg last summer in a meadow pipits nest. It took her around 4 hours to find and then lay her egg. I stood watching in the blazing sun all that time, binoculars fixed on her 9 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
pav 481 Posted January 4, 2019 Report Share Posted January 4, 2019 Out shooting with Billy (ftm) off there on edge of moor down a track spotting out both windows with thermal herd a weird squeel/cry looked down and about 5 yards away a big rat was setting about a hedgehog so I shot the rat 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
lurcherman 887 12,679 Posted January 4, 2019 Report Share Posted January 4, 2019 I saw peterhunter participating in a voodoo ceromany in the bogs of ireland Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mr Wilkes 2,915 Posted January 4, 2019 Report Share Posted January 4, 2019 Years ago I walked across a marsh and heard a horrible screeching cry so stopped to pinpoint it , i eventually found a shrew attacking a frog , it was the frog making the noise , the shrew had him by the back leg and was dragging him into the grass. I witnessed it twice more On same peace of land but never since. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
low plains drifter 9,463 Posted January 4, 2019 Report Share Posted January 4, 2019 15 hours ago, mackem said: Seen badgers and muntie in London which I thought was quite unusual,seen big monitors and pythons in cities,lots of wildlife in urban jungles.Seen a huge shoal,hundreds of them,of tuna in the med all breaching the surface around our boat,seen all sorts of animals in number,got chased up a tree by a rhino a few weeks before Christmas,that was quite unusual. Looks like it's got the horn for you kidder 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
low plains drifter 9,463 Posted January 4, 2019 Report Share Posted January 4, 2019 11 hours ago, jiggy said: Seen a badger and fox in full battle with fur flying at entrance of an earth in early spring. The badger was blocking the entrance but the fox wasn't quitting and was hell bent on getting by. I presume the fox had cubs in there because she wasn't leaving the bigger foe but badger wanted to take over. I often wondered would a badger eat young fox cubs. There's footage on YouTube of an american badger in Yellowstone that eats two cubs 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Greyman 25,258 Posted January 4, 2019 Report Share Posted January 4, 2019 15 hours ago, C.green said: Seen a few mad things but once got charged at by a roe doe it done it more than a couple times would get to a couple foot away and stop one of the best things ive ever seen to be fair brave animal.ive seen a doe storm in when her fawns been grabbed but this one just didnt seem to want me there. Had the same thing happen to me last summer in the middle of the day, dogs on leads going potty for it and it just kept running up to me then around in a big circle and another run at me, I assumed there must be a fawn in the long grass nearby Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Greyman 25,258 Posted January 4, 2019 Report Share Posted January 4, 2019 2 hours ago, Mr Wilkes said: Years ago I walked across a marsh and heard a horrible screeching cry so stopped to pinpoint it , i eventually found a shrew attacking a frog , it was the frog making the noise , the shrew had him by the back leg and was dragging him into the grass. I witnessed it twice more On same peace of land but never since. My cat catch,s frogs around the pond in the evening from time to time and the noise is mental, sounds like ET Screaming,total surprise the first time it happened 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
peterhunter86 8,627 Posted January 4, 2019 Report Share Posted January 4, 2019 A few weeks ago I was standing in o Connell street in Dublin City centre which is the busiest street in Ireland and some fella points at my feet an says look and when I looked down it was a fox as tame as fcuk just standing there then he just walked into the crowd and was gone I couldn't believe it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Lenmcharristar 9,180 Posted January 4, 2019 Report Share Posted January 4, 2019 8 minutes ago, peterhunter86 said: A few weeks ago I was standing in o Connell street in Dublin City centre which is the busiest street in Ireland and some fella points at my feet an says look and when I looked down it was a fox as tame as fcuk just standing there then he just walked into the crowd and was gone I couldn't believe it. That’s called a dream Pete 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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