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I saw something out of the ordinary today…

112 replies

boatyardblues · 30/09/2023 21:18

I heard high pitched squeaking as I walked to my car and saw a magpie drop a live mouse on the pavement and then peck at it. I didn’t know magpies could catch mice.

What did you see today that you weren’t expecting?

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WhateverMate · 30/09/2023 22:34

A toddler hitting his brother with the biggest corn on the cob I've ever seen, as he leant into the buggy to kiss him.

Redshoeblueshoe · 30/09/2023 22:35

There's a squirrel that lives near me, that collects hazelnuts then goes in the park to eat them. It sits under the slide to eat them. It makes me smile

DontMakeMeShushYou · 30/09/2023 22:35

The last remaining apple on my tree had been picked this morning and placed on top of the birdbox 8 feet up in the air (and higher than the highest branch of the apple tree).

Sodding squirrels!

DandysWife · 30/09/2023 22:58

I found a headless blackbird on my back door step this week...

GirlOfTudor · 30/09/2023 23:01

2 chickens walking around the petrol station that's located off a dual carriageway. Not completely unexpected as I've seen them once before there, but my toddler loved it!

LostMySocks · 30/09/2023 23:02

Dislike magpies although we have them in the garden. Heard shrieking a couple of months ago and realised it was a magpie that had taken one of the fledglings that we'd seen.

Butteredtoast55 · 30/09/2023 23:03

A bit of a grim question but what creature is beheading birds? I've seen this quite often this year?

Newphony · 30/09/2023 23:09

A woman asking a heavily pregnant woman and an elderly gentleman not to sit down in a public seating area and to leave a council owned premises. The person in question did not work in the building.

PickAChew · 30/09/2023 23:12

Magpies are fucking vicious. I saw one grab a baby blue tit and then rip it to shreds. The mouse wouldn't surprise me.

DandysWife · 30/09/2023 23:13

Butteredtoast55 · 30/09/2023 23:03

A bit of a grim question but what creature is beheading birds? I've seen this quite often this year?

I thought that it may have been a bird of prey that had maybe dropped it?

StowOnTheWold · 30/09/2023 23:14

Mehmehmehmehmeg · 30/09/2023 21:22

Magpies are just awful. I’ve seen them go after each other, lambs, dying bunnies etc

One flew in front of me a few weeks back, sort of crash landed on the pathway and threw up the half digested bodies of several chicks. I think magpies are horrid things.

PickAChew · 30/09/2023 23:18

Even other corvids hate them. A pair built a nest in a very tall tree, next door and a rook circled until they buggered off.

BadBadDecisions · 30/09/2023 23:19

My son (11) got out the chess set, roundly beat his dad, and informed us he's been playing every day at school for months.

Nobody has ever beaten DH before 😆

FrodoBagginsToeHair · 30/09/2023 23:23

Magpies and crows peck out the eyes of live lambs, kill baby songbirds and are just generally horrible creatures. There was a big outcry a few years ago when the licence for farmers to shoot them was revoked.

birds of prey and cats both take the heads off birds so I think it’s down to how many feathers you find laying around as to what likely killed it

LightSpeeds · 30/09/2023 23:30

I saw a crow standing on a sheep's head one day. The sheep wasn't in the slightest bit bothered. 😂

TeenMum87 · 30/09/2023 23:36

Today I saw a completely flat rat on a zebra crossing. No guts or mess, it was still shaped like a rat. The kids were fascinated.

Missingmyusername · 30/09/2023 23:38

Mehmehmehmehmeg · 30/09/2023 21:22

Magpies are just awful. I’ve seen them go after each other, lambs, dying bunnies etc

That’s all we see now. Hardly a sparrow or starling.

cherryassam · 30/09/2023 23:39

A few weeks ago I saw a seagull attack a pigeon in mid flight, bring it down onto the ground and start eating it whilst the pigeon was still trying to get away. On a pedestrian street in the middle of a major city. Feathers everywhere.

bluebeardswife7 · 30/09/2023 23:40

Last year, whilst cycling to work I saw a seagull extracting the guts from a dead hedgehog. I will leave you with that image. Good night x

Fiddlesticks25 · 30/09/2023 23:48

I once saw a magpie flying off with a baby bluetit 😥

Today has been fairly standard tbh.

DontLeanOnTheKeyboard · 30/09/2023 23:48

Watched a Red Kite eat a pigeon in the garden a couple of weeks ago.

And the mark of a large bird flying smack into patio doors overnight.

GerundTheBehemoth · 30/09/2023 23:55

43ontherocksporfavor · 30/09/2023 21:49

A really brightly coloured caterpillar with loads of yellow spikes and a spike at the end of its body. Haven’t seen a caterpillar since childhood.

Was this your caterpillar? Pale tussock moth, if so!

I saw something out of the ordinary today…
Mademetoxic · 30/09/2023 23:57

BeyondMyWits · 30/09/2023 21:51

Keeping with the bird theme, I was walking down an alleyway between back gardens and someone threw a dead pigeon at me... they didn't mean to, they were chucking it into the alleyway away from their dog... I was just unlucky to get in the way I guess.
(They did apologise)

😅😂 thanks for making my night !

Missikat13 · 30/09/2023 23:59

Redshoeblueshoe · 30/09/2023 22:31

43ontherocksporfavor - I saw a caterpillar like that last week, I googled and it was a Tussock moth.

I found one on a walk today, just as the pp described. Google lensed it and it was a pale tussock caterpillar! Never seen one before 😁

decionsdecisions62 · 30/09/2023 23:59

Magpies gang up and raid birds nests killing the chicks. They are monsters. I would go out and shoot them if my neighbours wouldn't report me but I think someone would.

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