Spring is in the air...

[pointysquirty]

... and wildlife is in the roads.

Just this evening I stopped for a hedgehog, a fox and swerved for a badger. Yesterday it was a fox and a duck. On Sunday a pheasant. This warm weather is really going to their heads!

Justin
- pointandwww.squirt.uk.co

[MikeGF]

Pointy

Tell me about it. Damn rabbits! Mad as hatters. Last night, 4 of the buggers, and LOTS of my tyre rubber on the road.

And bloody Blackbirds! Now they are just bloody cheeky. Jay walking wherever they want.

And horse crap.

[Roadrunner]

Lol! Also the weekend is here - it's pissing down!!

[DavidP]

quote:
Just this evening I stopped for a hedgehog, a fox and swerved for a badger. Yesterday it was a fox and a duck. On Sunday a pheasant.

Flippin eck, you country boys live well. Best I can manage is fish & chips or a kebab



>> Edited by DavidP on Friday 26th April 12:10

[filmidget]

You brake for rabbits and pheasants!?!

Rumour has it my future FinL has been known to aim for them, to provide a tasty Sunday lunch...

Wouldn't fancy hitting a badger though. There is a dual carriageway running North from Corby with a sign "BEWARE OF BADGERS" - soooo... you are tramming along an unlit 70mph road in the dark trying to spot badgers!?! That's got to be a bit tricky!

Cheers, Phil

[Roadrunner]

Managed to thump into a pigeon at 60ish once. The entire thing disintegrated mid air, leaving a HUGE cloud of feathers mid air. Excellent.

[pointysquirty]

LOL @ David P - There's benefits to livin' in the cun'ree

[pwig]

LOl a bird few into our science room window when I was at school, Just heard this hoooge THUD! feathers everywhere and this mark on the window resembling somthing like this
-O-

[gtir]

quote:... and wildlife is in the roads.

Just this evening I stopped for a hedgehog, a fox and swerved for a badger. Yesterday it was a fox and a duck. On Sunday a pheasant. This warm weather is really going to their heads!

Justin
- pointandwww.squirt.uk.co

Reminds me of that joke how many elephants can you get in a mini...or was it solicitors, or it might have been lesbians :razz

[pwig]

Ethiopians?

[carrie78]

Justin

- pointandwww.squirt.uk.co

Mistyped or a new site. I didn't know they has released uk.co if you go to link above you get an advert for it.

Carrie

[CupRacer]

Just last night I had to swerve to miss a herd of wildebeest that had crossed the road to avoid the crocodiles encroaching on their watering hole. Global warming has really hit Surrey in a big way.

[Marshy]

quote:Mistyped or a new site. I didn't know they has released uk.co if you go to link above you get an advert for it.

co will be the country code for somewhere bizarre, like Congo, perhaps. Someone's just bought uk.co off them, and is busy peddling domain names in that space.

uk.co and uk.com are therefore just attempts by someone to make a fast buck, and don't fit into the spirit of the domain name system as a whole (i.e. it's supposed to be a right to left hierarchy).

[toleman]

Pwig, funny you should say that, because about a month ago, at work, i heard a HUGE THUD. I thought WTF was that?
Looked at the windows and a Pigeon was flying towards the Travel Lodge.

On closer inspection the Pigeon had clearly gone full pelt into the window. The outline of its body was smeared into the window and you could see its wings were fully spanned.

Poor little fecker spent about an hour recovering on the top of the Travel Lodge roof.

This time of year is really bad for road kill, i must have seen at least 20-25 dead animals on the way to work on a 16 mile stretch.
im not a tree-hugger or anything, but you have to feel bad that all of these happless animals get killed that way.

[Roadrunner]

It's a quicker way to go that being ripped apart by foxes etc.

[PetrolTed]

Pigeons = pigeons - 1 this weekend in Wiltshire...

[Cotty]

quote:
Wouldn't fancy hitting a badger though.
Cheers, Phil

I have to walk through an old alley way to get home and staggering through drunk one night a badger slipped under the fence and I nearly tripped over it it was that close . They are big buggers and you certainly dont want to hit one. If you do I would not suggest you go back and see if its ok they can be quite dangerous. Big claws etc

Paul