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By *lanPartridge OP   Man
over a year ago

nottingham

I've been privileged to see some crackers: usually minutes from home or work. Such as: a pipistrelle and a magpie having an ariel dogfight outside my window at 11 o'clock in the morning

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Snakes chasing the wee Iguana on Planet Earth x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Flying tawney owls and Harris hawks from my hand.

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By *ympho7Couple
over a year ago

swansea

2 dozen sparrows squabbling over bird seeder, outside my window,

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By *queekyCheesyCouple
over a year ago

Maidstone

Was cycling down a very quiet and long road in the stupid hours not long ago, a bat decided to fly alongside me about 4 ft away for a good half mile of it.

Watching 2 baby foxes rolling around play fighting in the middle of nowhere

Going round a sharp bend while biking and coming face to face with a full grown stag in the middle of the trail. That was incredible.

Stared at each other for what felt like half hour before he casually wandered off

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Last month I got hit in the face by a vultures wing as it flew right past my head.

#truestory

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Being pissed at by a laughing marmoset at jersey zoo, true story

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By *layfullsamMan
over a year ago

Solihull

My local pub on Friday night

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

bought a small piece of land at the bottom of our garden and made it just for wildlife - the rewards are fantastic - just love wildlife. Suppose the highlights thus far are a) seeing a young hedgehog - so cute and 2) watching the foxcubs at play - they are just like little teddy bears. One of them has stayed in the area and sits in the garden every night. Perhaps something to do with the hubby spoiling the fhim rotten with chicken etc.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

So many where we live, in our garden we've had foxes, hedgehogs, wild rabbits, bats, woodpeckers, blue tits or great tits and what we think was a peregrine falcon, and buzzards and kestrels flying overhead.

When I go walking over the fields I usually see Deer too.

Ginger

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By *risky_MareWoman
over a year ago

...Up on the Downs

Listening to baby badgers playing every night at sunset. Talking to an overly brave foxcub

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Saw a pair of woodpeckers yesterday whilst walking through the woods. I see one occasionally but two... Never seen that before.

Mrs

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"The Snakes chasing the wee Iguana on Planet Earth x"

We’re you shouting out encouragement and gasping at close calls too? I was

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By *ushandkittyCouple
over a year ago

Gloucester

Years ago my mum used to have a couple of families of badgers come for food, the adults used to stand on their hind legs paws on the window sill waiting to be fed. My mum used to open the back door and feed them by hand, my dad sat on the lawn videoing 3 adults and 5 pups being fed.

More recently had to stop the car while a deer took a drink from a pothole in middle of the road, cheeky git looked up, and took another drink before legging it into the undergrowth.

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By *ust RachelTV/TS
over a year ago

Horsham

Mother and foal deer walking down a road outside a cottage in whitby.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Kingfisher on a local river... more of a big stream really but breathtaking...

Breathtaking in a totally different way a sparrowhawk catching a magpie and then ripping it apart in the garden just outside my office window...

Sometimes nature is a bit brutal..

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I see a lot of stuff while out riding my horse. A fledgling buzzard taking it's first flight was pretty cool.

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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

The Ultimate Penguin Experience on the beach at dusk on Phillip Island as they come home from a day at sea. I had loud, smelly, but cute, penguins jumping over me.

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By *queekyCheesyCouple
over a year ago

Maidstone

Not so much 'wildlife' in the general respect but I'm an apiarist (mr) so I get to see alot of very special stuff most just see on the TV, which is as shit as the government compared to the real thing

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I spent 3 days in the Atlas Mountains in Morocco over Christmas. One of those days was spent watching and photographing Ibex Goats, climbing and jumping up and down shear cliff faces. One of the most special wildlife moments in my life and one that will stick in my mind forever.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The robins I watch in my garden in winter. I haven't seen any since next door got a cat.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Mother and foal deer walking down a road outside a cottage in whitby."

I was driving to my brother's ast bonfire night, when my grandson said, wouldn't it be funny if we saw a deer. A second after he said it we saw a couple of cars in our headlights and a deer walking towards our car. I think it had been hit by one of the cars ahead.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A magpie taking on 5 crows for a scap of food was spectacular the hard bastard

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"The Snakes chasing the wee Iguana on Planet Earth x

We’re you shouting out encouragement and gasping at close calls too? I was "

Moan the Iguanas lol x

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By *izzy RascallMan
over a year ago

Cardiff

Plenty over the years but currently the Robins I feed from my hand. They cock their heads as I talk to them and chirp back at me.

It's so sweet

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Lucky to live right next to the River Don where I walk the dog/go running, so I regularly see heron, foxes, deer, otters and more. Recently we had a rare type of duck that brought quite a lot of attention, even bumped into Mr Really Wild Show himself Chris Packham!

I've also been out at Aberdeen Harbour through work and have been so lucky to have dolphins swim up unbelievably close!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Fed an urban fox an Xmas mince pie a few years ago.

Was only 4-5 meters away from me as well.

Felt like a low brow Steve Irwin....except I wasn't trying to jam my thumb up its jacksie!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Think mine was doing the Mull big 5 in a day. That is seeing Golden Eagle, white tailled eagle, hen harrier, red deer and otter

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By *lanPartridge OP   Man
over a year ago

nottingham

Great moments people!

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By *ficouldMan
over a year ago

a quandary, could you change my mind?

A white stag walking through the woods, sat watching him for a few minutes until he was spooked.

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By *tonMessCouple
over a year ago

Slough Windsor ish


"The Snakes chasing the wee Iguana on Planet Earth x"

This

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By *unandbuckCouple
over a year ago

Sheffield

Seeing wild orangutans in Borneo. I cried

Bun

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Stroked a grey whale and her calf in Mexico. Watched Brown bears feeding on salmon from a cabin in a forest in Finland. Watched an Osprey swoop down to catch fish in Scotland.

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By *ighland_RoseCouple
over a year ago

Brigadoon


"The Ultimate Penguin Experience on the beach at dusk on Phillip Island as they come home from a day at sea. I had loud, smelly, but cute, penguins jumping over me."

I've been there too, it's a fantastic experience.

Other wildlife met in Australia include a koala in a tree in our garden, the same tree the tawny frogmouths usually perched in. A massive goanna casually sauntering past the full length window in the living room so it was only about 4 feet from were we were sitting. The long nosed Poteroo that used to sneak the scraps from the dogs bowl. The echidna found walking across the road so we picked it up and moved it to safety. The 2 baby possums on the verandah outside my bedroom when I was alone at night that scared the life out of me, the next day one of them actually took pieces of Apple from my hand . The bush turkey that used to come running down the garden towards us, it was so comical the way it ran

The red bellied black snake I almost stood on when walking my dog

The huge possum that woke us in the night with the incredible amount of noise it was making walking through the overhanging branches on next doors fence, we thought something had escaped from the zoo!

The 6 cockatoos that used to sit on the railing of our neighbours verandah when they came to visit his pet cockatoo.

The parrots that would descend on your flowering shrubs at dawn with the most raucous racket you've ever heard and leave not a single flower unravaged.

The dozen kookaburras that family friends cooked steak for every day at 4:00pm

Seeing a kookaburra catch and kill a snake or lizard in my garden and kill it with one whack

The kookaburra we found sitting in the middle of the road and wouldn't move so we got out and picked it up then thought well what do we do with it now? We were in the middle of nowhere on the way to tenterfield and couldn't really take it with us...then we looked above the road and there was a wildlife sanctuary! Wasn't really such a lucky coincidence tho as the kooka had flown down from there. It had been given to them to look after as people had raised it as a pet and it didn't know how to be a wild kooka

My brother saw a platypus in the creek near our house, that's mega rare.

Pretty sure there's more memories in the old brain box somewhere but this has turned into a ridiculously long post! Plus I haven't even started on the Scottish wildlife!

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By *asybbwCouple
over a year ago

bangor

I seen a rat by the pizza hut

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By *oachman 9CoolMan
over a year ago

derby


"The Ultimate Penguin Experience on the beach at dusk on Phillip Island as they come home from a day at sea. I had loud, smelly, but cute, penguins jumping over me.

I've been there too, it's a fantastic experience.

Other wildlife met in Australia include a koala in a tree in our garden, the same tree the tawny frogmouths usually perched in. A massive goanna casually sauntering past the full length window in the living room so it was only about 4 feet from were we were sitting. The long nosed Poteroo that used to sneak the scraps from the dogs bowl. The echidna found walking across the road so we picked it up and moved it to safety. The 2 baby possums on the verandah outside my bedroom when I was alone at night that scared the life out of me, the next day one of them actually took pieces of Apple from my hand . The bush turkey that used to come running down the garden towards us, it was so comical the way it ran

The red bellied black snake I almost stood on when walking my dog

The huge possum that woke us in the night with the incredible amount of noise it was making walking through the overhanging branches on next doors fence, we thought something had escaped from the zoo!

The 6 cockatoos that used to sit on the railing of our neighbours verandah when they came to visit his pet cockatoo.

The parrots that would descend on your flowering shrubs at dawn with the most raucous racket you've ever heard and leave not a single flower unravaged.

The dozen kookaburras that family friends cooked steak for every day at 4:00pm

Seeing a kookaburra catch and kill a snake or lizard in my garden and kill it with one whack

The kookaburra we found sitting in the middle of the road and wouldn't move so we got out and picked it up then thought well what do we do with it now? We were in the middle of nowhere on the way to tenterfield and couldn't really take it with us...then we looked above the road and there was a wildlife sanctuary! Wasn't really such a lucky coincidence tho as the kooka had flown down from there. It had been given to them to look after as people had raised it as a pet and it didn't know how to be a wild kooka

My brother saw a platypus in the creek near our house, that's mega rare.

Pretty sure there's more memories in the old brain box somewhere but this has turned into a ridiculously long post! Plus I haven't even started on the Scottish wildlife!

"
Very enjoyable to read Indeed.

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By *ighland_RoseCouple
over a year ago

Brigadoon


"The Ultimate Penguin Experience on the beach at dusk on Phillip Island as they come home from a day at sea. I had loud, smelly, but cute, penguins jumping over me.

I've been there too, it's a fantastic experience.

Other wildlife met in Australia include a koala in a tree in our garden, the same tree the tawny frogmouths usually perched in. A massive goanna casually sauntering past the full length window in the living room so it was only about 4 feet from were we were sitting. The long nosed Poteroo that used to sneak the scraps from the dogs bowl. The echidna found walking across the road so we picked it up and moved it to safety. The 2 baby possums on the verandah outside my bedroom when I was alone at night that scared the life out of me, the next day one of them actually took pieces of Apple from my hand . The bush turkey that used to come running down the garden towards us, it was so comical the way it ran

The red bellied black snake I almost stood on when walking my dog

The huge possum that woke us in the night with the incredible amount of noise it was making walking through the overhanging branches on next doors fence, we thought something had escaped from the zoo!

The 6 cockatoos that used to sit on the railing of our neighbours verandah when they came to visit his pet cockatoo.

The parrots that would descend on your flowering shrubs at dawn with the most raucous racket you've ever heard and leave not a single flower unravaged.

The dozen kookaburras that family friends cooked steak for every day at 4:00pm

Seeing a kookaburra catch and kill a snake or lizard in my garden and kill it with one whack

The kookaburra we found sitting in the middle of the road and wouldn't move so we got out and picked it up then thought well what do we do with it now? We were in the middle of nowhere on the way to tenterfield and couldn't really take it with us...then we looked above the road and there was a wildlife sanctuary! Wasn't really such a lucky coincidence tho as the kooka had flown down from there. It had been given to them to look after as people had raised it as a pet and it didn't know how to be a wild kooka

My brother saw a platypus in the creek near our house, that's mega rare.

Pretty sure there's more memories in the old brain box somewhere but this has turned into a ridiculously long post! Plus I haven't even started on the Scottish wildlife!

Very enjoyable to read Indeed. "

Thank you, the experiences were very enjoyable, I love animals more than people (mostly)

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I've been privileged to see some crackers: usually minutes from home or work. Such as: a pipistrelle and a magpie having an ariel dogfight outside my window at 11 o'clock in the morning "

One of my favourite moments, in Florida sitting at the dock watching the Manatee sunbath in the morning sun at the surface of the lagoon.

MrsK x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"The Snakes chasing the wee Iguana on Planet Earth x"

Agreed brilliant tv

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I am lucky to live by water and my work takes me into the countryside so I see a lot of wildlife. Quite excited to be tracking wild boar soon..

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By *lanPartridge OP   Man
over a year ago

nottingham

Fantablious folks

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