What wildlife do you see on your walks?
Yesterday I saw a badger - I know they are very common- but they tend to be nocturnal - and that was the first time I had seen a live badger in broad daylight since forever.
I also saw lots of tortoiseshell butterflies... and a very tame rabbit... and a red kite.
There are deer in the area - but I have not seen one for a while.
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We are lucky enough to live in a fairly rural area with fields and mountains surrounding us, we have seen owls, foxes, little lizard type creatures and lots of different birds.
As a child, in the middle of nowhere in the Cotswolds, I saw a Badger once, it was dusk and he/she was on the edge of a Beech Wood, just looking around. Saw foxes then, I feel the London Suburb Foxes I see now are no longer true wildlife. I do see Deer in the parks, however they are now well conditioned to cars and people.
As a child I spent time in West Africa, so of course saw Geckos, many varieties of Parrots, Creepy Crawlies of numerous sorts, Scorpions (still tap my shoes in the morning, before I put them on) and Snakes. I frightened my Mother one morning I was quite small, we had 2 very large clay pots 3' ish, outside the kitchen door, for keeping things cool in. I had wandered out, lifted a lid, felt something interesting when I put my hand in. Lifted it up and saw an interesting head, wandered back into the kitchen, tugging this thing behind me. Mummy look what I have found, very unhappy reaction as it was rather large snake, of the sort that squeezes its prey. I reckon it had just eaten and was sleeping it off, whilst it slept. I think it was the Cockroaches I really hated.
Constrictors YUK. I really hate snakes and spiders.
Hi S11m, I don't get to see much wildlife as I'm a city dweller. We have birds of course; magpies and a very noisy woodpigeon couple who nest in the tree right outside my apartment, and then the gulls with their endless screech. But strangely quite a lot of hedgehogs and a few badgers in the university grounds. As you say though, quite unusual to see one in broad daylight!
Squirrels, on the community footpath that used to be a railway line bringing coal down the Rhondda valley, 2 buzzards circling . 5 magpies gathered around my fish food , blackbirds eating the cherries as they come ripe on my cherry tree , a robin, gang of thieving wood, pigeons having a good old dig around my seeds, a heron inspecting my garden pond. and bunch of sparrows chasing each other around.
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