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This is the second time I've seen it. Broken off fir tree and a greylag land upon it.
No, but I once saw a "flightless" big fat domestic goose fly off into the distance. Was hard explaining that to the person I was looking after it for...
Not a goose, no. I did however see a mallard sat about 15' up one. I stood there for about five minutes trying to think if what I was seeing was normal or If was going insane.
saw a "flightless" big fat domestic goose
Sounds tasty...
I once saw a peacock walking along the ridge of a 2-storey house. I still struggle with that one.
Nope but I'd always assumed that herons nested on the ground until a few weeks ago, when I was trying to find the poor animal.that was obviously trapped and in a lot of pain.
Geese used to land on the ridge of our thatched boathouse and then use the hip as a slide to assist their take off. ****ers.
They haven't since we wire netted it though 😀
Say a duck on the roof of a house just up the road from us a few days ago. Thought that was a little odd.
Herons are noisy buggers... did a night fish off hengistbury head, Christchurch, not knowing about the herons... certainly gives you a brown trouser moment at 2am when they start up as you walk underneath!
Yep I've seen Egyptian geese doing it around here a lot - they seem to like to sit at the top of trees and shout like crazy
I've seen a house fly...
Not a goose, no. I did however see a mallard sat about 15' up one. I stood there for about five minutes trying to think if what I was seeing was normal or If was going insane.
It's not unusual to find a mallard nest on a veranda ten floors up a block of flats, then the poor ducklings have to just jump off when it's time for them to leave the nest. One former BBC Radio 2 presenter had it happen where she lived.
I've heard of a swan in a tree.
Then it fell out, breaking the collarbone of the poor bloke walking underneath. The swan was just a bit stunned (True story: Ware, 1985 - because I saw the swan).
It ended up in the tree while been driving from its nest by its parents.
I've also touched a swan with my nose - it aborted take off as I was kayaking, and skidded into my boat with its wings outstretched infront of my face.
I saw one hit the canopy after activating the ejector seat.
It was very sad.
/\ this guy
Geese used to land on the ridge of our thatched boathouse and then use the hip as a slide to assist their take off. ****ers.They haven't since we wire netted it though
Are you a Tory MP?
There was a Geese that thought it was a Swan that hung out with a family of Swans for about a decade till it must have passed away a couple of years ago and vanished.
It would disappear for its migration but would always return back to the same family of swans and just hang out with them as if be was part of the gang, and he was accepted as one of their own.
He was called the Swoose round here.
I once saw a peacock walking along the ridge of a 2-storey house.
There's a peacock which has settled to live on an estate in urban Salford. It's been there for years now and can often be spotted on the roof of one of the houses.
We had a load of feral peacocks round our way. After a couple got into a neighbour's house and shat all over the kitchen, they were rounded up and relocated. I still hear the one that got away though.
Nope but I'd always assumed that herons nested on the ground
Ah you don't live near Macclesfield Forest then?
Anyway, snowboarding crow anyone?
My neighbour had a Harris Hawk come in through the catflap.
Nope, not a Tory mp 😀
Although maybe a thatched boathouse does give one a skewed sense of entitlement 😉
We do have an increasing number of Swallows returning each year to nest within it. They poop everywhere. Lucky they're cute really.
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
Some ducks nest in trees. When the chicks hatch mum takes them to water. They can't fly yet so they just jump out the tree. They have a non fatal terminal Velocity. Think there is footage on YouTube from BBC natural history unit showing the procedure.
A month or so ago I watched a moorhen attempt to build a nest about 12 feet up a tree, it was a bit shit at it. It kept dropping whatever twig or leaf or inappropriate piece of litter it had found just before it reached its nest site. I think it still might be building.
I've seen a Cock in a bush if that counts?