To ask what animal could be on my roof?

[Yellownotblue]

I hear footsteps on my flat roof (London semi) in daytime. They seem four legged. Too heavy for mice, squirrels and probably rats. I’d say it sounds more like I would expect a cat or fox to make.

Cat I don’t mind (as long as it doesn’t get hurt).

Foxes I’m really not keen. But can foxes climb? There’s no scaffolding nearby that I can think of. And are they active in daytime? I only hear them at night usually.

Any other ideas of what wildlife is on my route? There’s no visual clue.

The magpies wake me up every morning dancing on my flat roof. I swear there's some magpie version of Riverdance going on up there.

Foxes are also surprisingly agile so could easily manage an accessible flat roof. Cats too but they are quite light footed.

My bet is on magpies or possibly shagging pigeons as you're in London.

Probably just birds. We get magpies and crows and honestly you'd swear there was a group of rowdy men up there.

A reindeer.
Or maybe it's too soon for that.

@FrenchOrGreek

A reindeer. Or maybe it's too soon for that.

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Birds can be incredibly loud stampers. This spring, I had to move down to the sofa to sleep, as the fledgling starlings who had hatched in the roof would do their morning exercise, jogging up and down in the loft from 5 til 7 every day. I thought it must be a mammal of some sort, but no - just starlings (opened the hatch to have a look, and one was perched on the loft ladder), and they buggered off after a few weeks.

I have a very loud magpie that lives on my roof, it definitely wears tap shoes!!

The attic is converted and there are no rats inside, for sure.

Pigeons or magpies seem the most likely then, as there are loads in the garden. Phew!

I have a seagull that walks on my flat roof, he sounds like a hippo stomping about!

I hear magpies on my shed flat roof and you would think they were cats running about

I once lived in a top floor, flat roofed flat opposite a park. Sometimes an entire flock of crows would land on the roof. That was an unbelievable racket!

Flying fox? 🦇

Magpies and crows practically clog-dance on our roof, the noisy beggars.

It will be pigeons. They are like elephants! It’s hard to believe until you see them running about. They are so noisy.

@Sewfrickinamazeballs

Have you ever seen an elephant? They're nothing like pigeons. For one thing there is only one of them that can actually fly (Dumbo) and another thing they are a lot bigger. If there was a flock of elephants in Trafalgar Square believe me you'd know about it - it would be on the news and everything.

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