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isn't it wonderful?

in my garden last week, amongst the usual pigeons, starlings and tits was this pheasant...

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a251/jehst/pheasant.jpg

there's a tree growing in your commode.

You should have eaten it.

 I had pheasant for Christmas dinner once to see what it was about.  OK nothing special for the money.

  I'd have taken that bad boy off you SY for a fiver.

A few months back I had an interloper in my back garden too....I wish i had moi gun as they say down here....

http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g171/jjedmunds/deer.jpg

we've had cunts round here shooting every day for the past fortnight, i past some of them yesterday and stuck my fingers up at them. probably not a good idea seeing as they have guns.

For all you animal enthusiasts - a must have for Xmas

http://www.amazon.co.uk/What-Shat-That-Pocket-Identity/dp/1906051127

Synopsis

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i'd rather have this:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Pets-Tourettes-Mark-Leigh/dp/1840246103/ref=pd_sim_b_title_3

Venison....mmm.

    Speaking of whom I read somewhere where the erstwhile pundit, had taken himself off  to university in Nottingham...and was now working for the hawk eye mob.

That made me spit my milkyway out  :D

i missed that first time round. i know i live in the middle of nowhere but we're not THAT backwards round here.

how come there's a seat and a magazine rack next to it then? far too convenient if you ask me.

Wasn't so long ago that I had a 10ft Boa crossing my street, it was lucky that I didn'r run it over. He took AGES ta cross, so long that a bit of a traffic problem developed.

I also an Owl in Lawn woods once, that was cool.

 Couple of summers back, I was a stumbling down Marlborough Road at 4 or 5 in the morning, after a misssion in Covingham,  when I saw an owl on the trees at Bruddel Grove.   It was well excited hooting till its heart was content. I guess the Lawns is good owl country.

do you know langley lane reg? single track road from lechlade to clanfield, near langford and stuff.

i've often seen a barn owl down there when i've been driving back from swindon of an evening.


not long ago saw a live badger for the first time, just a hundred yards from my house - i was well chuffed.

The old railway track from old town, down towards the canals is good for wildlife. Mountain biking is/was a hobby of mine and I have seen all sorts of wildlife down there, a badger included. I remember it well cos it turned a corner and there it was, in broad daylight looking very very pissed off and so I found another route (The badger won).

I also remember a beeb documentary yonks ago about scorpions in the south of england, some chap went up to a brick wall with a flourescent light and there was loads of them, and apparently they fed of woodlouse.

 I've seen loads of stuff down there,  favourites being the slow worm and Jack Snipe.

  http://www.surfbirds.com/media/Photos/JackSnipe-dc-290901.jpg

 Plenty of deer, badgers, kestrels  and grey wagtail.

I used to have a slow worm as a pet, very bitey!

I wonder if that was an offspring of the owl that used to hoot all night long when I lived in that neck of the woods?

I fucking hate deers.  :twisted:

I fucking hate old dears

Has anyone ever had a badger in their back garden?? they sound a little bit fiesty

Yes

Dug the whole fucking place up !

   Earlier this evening, I saw an owl as I walked through the Town Gardens.

   Wasn't hooting or owt, but making a distinctive  clicking sort of sound, this alerted me and I could make out its shape up in the tree,  there was a bit of moonlight to help.

   Quality moment.

i see loads of stuff when out night driving.loads down the a420.
owls,deer,badgers,foxes,bats etc .and have ran enough of the fucking things over down the years.(all accidently of course)last time i splatted a fox cub and couldn't sleep for a couple of nights :(

where the hell is that? i never see fuck all on the a420, there used to be some deer in a field next to the buckland service station but i think they've all appeared dead on the road.

i remember going to alton towers at school on a coach when it hit a deer. that was horrific.

last night i saw a barn owl sat on a road sign near tubney. and individual deer grazing along the road side from the range rover place to near the snooty fox pub.
there were at least three deer dead by the road side too

True story:

I was watching the Thai news one night, and one article was about a whole new species of animal that had been discovered out in the sticks somewhere. The report went onto say that this animal had a fierce tempermant and voracious appetite but what what it, it is sort of half pig, half dog half something else.

Then they showed video footage of this strange new creature which was absolutely freaking out in a cage and all of the Thai's around where astounded: "What is it, what is it?"

They called me over and asked "What the fuck is that, have you ever seen anything like that before?"

And I replied: "Of course I fucking well have, It's a fucking Badger innit!"

I think that I felt the entire Nation's excitement vanish with those very words.

Stooopid cunt's, they could have at least googled it or something!

Deers are crazy. They ran into my car, whilst I was driving, and it caused over a grands worth of damage. And this was in a busy part of swindon!

Magic roundabout ?

No by the chinese experience.

Theres loads of deers round there. was out for a run once and one ran right in front of me! i cacked myself

   Point of information.....the plural of deer is deer.

Theres loads of deer round there. was out for a run once and one ran right in front of me! i cacked myself

Staying on a marina in Chichester the bird life is something else.  Every morning there's a couple of black swans that wander round, then a grey heron flies over and fishes for a while, then about 8:00am a cormorant lands nearby and dives for fish.  It happens almost like clockwork.

 Herons are common as muck....I once saw one flying down Devizes Road.

  You sure it was acormorant and not a shag?

we used to get a heron in our garden because of the pond.

a fake plastic heron didn't deter him either.

You should see some of the birds that fly about the outskirts here, they is fucking HUGE!

Big old fruit bats aren't un-common either, even in downtown Bangkok.

To quote a friend of mine "That's not a bat, it's batman". And we where stood on the balcony of a house right slap bang dash in the city centre at the time.

Gekko's are cool as, and are almost a neccessary (Sp?) addition to any Thai abode, cos' they eat mosquito's and flies and that. And they are just cool to watch. Although they can be WELL noisy at times.

 I like herons.....you get them in Queen's Park.  They don't seem to give a shit about people, just concentrate on the fishing.  When they fly, they look a bit primitive to me, how I imagine archaeopteryx might have looked.

Isn't that one of the legendary bird pokemon?

We found a massive Koi in our pond when we moved in (owner left behind) and saw a fair few herons interested however netting soon prevented attack!  Although my 10 goldfish were eaten by that bastard fish! (10 boring orangey ones and 3 white ones called Hilda, Harry and Henry  :( )

If you have ornamental carp in your pond...then watch out, not for herons, but for Poles.  Its Christmas dinner in Eastern Europe....and apparently lots go missing at this time of year.

I used to have crap ornaments in my living room, but Chubbs nicked them last year.

I've not had a shag down here for month's  :D