Cycling along national cycle route 4 yesterday, I saw a cracked egg in the road with three young lads hanging about. One had his hand in his pocket and was waiting for me.... The most evil stare I could muster made him think twice about taking his hand out of his pocket .. he gave me a friendly hello, and watched his intended victim go past. I think he decided 6ft, 15 stone isn't really a good choice of target. 😉
The funniest bit of all, was chasing down a cyclist, I watched as he hopped onto the pavement to get past a queue of traffic. Crash Bang Wallop into a young lad on his bike. Everyone was okay, and one of the lad's mates had the most contagious laugh. I couldn't help but smile. Noticing that I'd taken the wrong route, I doubled back a few minutes later with this guy still putting stuff back onto his bike. Longcut, shortcut, shouldn't ride on pavements, huh?!
Cycling along national cycle route 4 yesterday, I saw a cracked egg in the road with three young lads hanging about. One had his hand in his pocket and was waiting for me.... The most evil stare I could muster made him think twice about taking his hand out of his pocket .. he gave me a friendly hello, and watched his intended victim go past. I think he decided 6ft, 15 stone isn't really a good choice of target. 😉
Out with the CTC this morning, saw a boxer dog in the middle of the road standing over a freshly dead chicken. Someone's going to be in trouble...
I was on part of that this morning, to fall in with the rest of the thread I saw a dead badger.
Too many of those about, sadly. Dead badgers I've seen outnumber live ones by a considerable margin.
Until recently I'd agree, but I've seen three live ones this summer - one in daylight (oddly) just lumbered into the bushes as I came round a corner in an off-road path at the beginning of the summer, and then last week I was flying (incautiously and reprehensibly) down a lane in teh dark when two ran ahead of me a little and then veered off into teh bushes to teh side.
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> Cycling along national cycle route 4 yesterday,
I was on part of that this morning, to fall in with the rest of the thread I saw a dead badger.
Too many of those about, sadly. Dead badgers I've seen outnumber live ones by a considerable margin.
despite being a wildlifey type person who goes out of their way to see all sorts of beasties, that'd be 1:0 in my case too.
I've only seen one .. I was in a car, and it's had freshly been run over. The other driver left the scene leaving the cull to me. I couldn't do it, and then a farmers wife came around the corner in a Land Rover. Big stick ... badger out of misery.
Never seen a badger anywhere near London though. Foxes, however, 2ish:Millions.
Too many of those about, sadly. Dead badgers I've seen outnumber live ones by a considerable margin.
The live ones can hear you coming.
I find, actually, that a bike is an excellent way of seeing wildlife, particularly around dusk, because they _don't_ hear you coming (and don't expect anythign so quiet to move so quickly).
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Never seen a badger anywhere near London though. Foxes, however, 2ish:Millions.
they walk about Caversham (northern suburb of Reading) as brazenly as old grannies' lap-dogs! They are also better at crossing roads it seems....
Recently saw a fox waiting by the roadside whilst cars zoomed past - it crossed at a suitable gap like a well-trained dog. One of the passing cars was a TVP patrol car - the fox seemed to try and "keep its head down" when it saw that one! [could actually have been the reflective strips, causing the fox to be dazzled?]
I find, actually, that a bike is an excellent way of seeing wildlife, particularly around dusk, because they _don't_ hear you coming (and don't expect anythign so quiet to move so quickly).
The two full grown deer that shot across about 6ft in front of me were a bit too close for comfort. The kamikaze bunnies trying to get diced by my spokes I can deal with but two full grown deer?
Tony
-- "If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything." Mark Twain
I find, actually, that a bike is an excellent way of seeing wildlife, particularly around dusk, because they _don't_ hear you coming (and don't expect anythign so quiet to move so quickly).
Why am I reminded of pedestrians' behaviour? :-0
James
-- "Sorry mate, I didn't see you" is not a satisfactory excuse.
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In my younger years I went to skool in Formby in what is now deemed to be Merseyside. Formby has Red Squirrels rather than the grey types we have around here, so be it.
We still have reds up here and I have been lucky enough to see a couple from the saddle. When I lived down in Oxford I regularly saw foxes while heading home at night. Here I get stoats, weasels, kestrels and barn owls among other things. And, sort of comedy 'taches crossing the road---I think they are voles.
Colin
It's the reason I continue Mountain Biking, being so close to nature and seing such fauna (in forests etc.) you wouldn't see anywhere else. I remember this one time I was cycling along quite happily in the Queen Elizabeth Forest Park and was stopped in my tracks by a fully grown stag in the middle of the road! It tried to stare me out, but I won, after what felt like 10 minutes of staring at each other, he jumped about 8-10m high right into the forest, gone! Ah yes, I really felt the 'force' flowing through me that day.
Or it couldn't have been last nights curry. 🙂 -- MS Jedi
