Strange Thing you see whilst out in the countryside

[paulus 26]

Just to start the topic off,  Here's just a couple of things i have witnessed. The first is mother of pearl clouds and the second is swarming gnats. The swarm was massive, 

[Greyman 31,064]

38 minutes ago, paulus said:

Just to start the topic off,  Here's just a couple of things i have witnessed. The first is mother of pearl clouds and the second is swarming gnats. The swarm was massive, 

A ice halo on the moon was quite spectacular I have only seen it once, google image, have seen a pike take a duck and two pike drown when one tried to eat the other but was the same size, have seen several terrapins in various waters in the uk for starters

Edited October 23, 2022 by Greyman

[paulus 26]

2 minutes ago, Greyman said:

A ice halo on the moon was quite spectacular I have only seen it once, have seen a pike take a duck and two pike drown when one tried to eat the other but was the same size, have seen several terrapins in various waters in the uk for starters

3 resident terrapins on one of the pits i fish. I have caught a perch that was then taken by a pike, then that pike was taken by a bigger pike, so playing 3 fish at once/

[Greyman 31,064]

1 minute ago, paulus said:

3 resident terrapins on one of the pits i fish. I have caught a perch that was then taken by a pike, then that pike was taken by a bigger pike, so playing 3 fish at once/

The sitting quietly by the water aspect of fishing allows you to witness a lot of nature’s wonders

[pesky1972 5,629]

9 minutes ago, Greyman said:

The sitting quietly by the water aspect of fishing allows you to witness a lot of nature’s wonders

Was saying exactly that to my missus yesterday, and lamenting the fact that life is short, and I don’t do it nearly enough. It’s always ‘next year’

[Arry 24,444]

Was out on a mushroom mooch about three weeks ago about 10 o'clock on a still sunny day. I just came out of a wood down by the river with a steep hill running up to my left at the top of the hill under a tree something caught my eye, thought at first it was a sheep in trouble. Was it f**k there was a couple humping. I moved off quick and got about a field away and rang the farmer who I had been talking to earlier and laughing about it. He then told me it may not be a man and a woman as he had seen two people there few days before two blokes one dressed as a woman. I went on down the river mooched around for a while to give them time to finish as I had to go back the way. After about half a hour I was making my way back and f***ing hell they were still at it Lol.

Cheers Arry

[mackem 29,521]

23 minutes ago, W. Katchum said:

Pics or I don’t belive ye

Rather not, he already said it was two blokes

[mackem 29,521]

48 minutes ago, Arry said:

 two blokes one dressed as a woman. 

Are these the geezers Arry?

[mackem 29,521]

7 minutes ago, W. Katchum said:

Fcuk that, I’d have snaps an be blackmailing them or I’d be tellin there wife’s

I think one was the others "wife"

[peterhunter86 8,627]

2 hours ago, Greyman said:

A ice halo on the moon was quite spectacular I have only seen it once, google image, have seen a pike take a duck and two pike drown when one tried to eat the other but was the same size, have seen several terrapins in various waters in the uk for starters

I've seen a magpie fighting a stoat,and twice I've seen young pike about 3 or 4 inches long jumping out of the water catching flies and when I was about 14 me and me mate's were swimming in the canal and a mink got in and came right up to us and swam around us for a few minutes,and the funniest one was seen a camel and a pony fighting each other in a field 

[mackem 29,521]

1 minute ago, peterhunter86 said:

 the funniest one was seen a camel and a pony fighting each other in a field 

Why were they fighting, did the camel have the hump? 

[Daniel cain 48,183]

2 hours ago, paulus said:

3 resident terrapins on one of the pits i fish. I have caught a perch that was then taken by a pike, then that pike was taken by a bigger pike, so playing 3 fish at once/

few lakes by us are full of terrapins...

[peterhunter86 8,627]

1 minute ago, mackem said:

Why were they fighting, did the camel have the hump? 

Haha probably,fossets circus had a compound a few miles from where I grew up and there was a couple of ponies and camel's grazing in one of they're field's and the two were taken lumps out of each other,and the very odd time we got to see a tiger elephant etc 

[Nicepix 5,650]

41 minutes ago, mackem said:

Rather not, he already said it was two blokes

Yes, but we might know them.

[Nicepix 5,650]

I was fishing a small river in Spain and landed a cornish pasty on a worm bait. Place was full of terrapins. 

Fishing one of the lakes near here I've seen a black kite taking small fish from the surface. It has happened quite a few times so not an isolated incident. This summer a bat was seen flying around my swim on the River Charente around midday. That took things from the surface like swallows do.