AIBU to think that if you hate animals you shouldn't move to the countryside?

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I live in a very rural community which has become popular with commuters in the last 5 years. Over the last 18 months the following complaints have featured heavily on the local WhatsApp and Facebook groups:

Cows blocking the road for 10 mins (they do this twice a day and have for hundred of years as they go in for milking)
Escapee sheep roaming the verges and traffic islands
Cockerels crowing
Church Bells

Our neighbours moved in Jan 2016 and have built a conservatory overlooking our field. They have complained:

A ram was tupping ewes in the field
Many Sheep gave birth in the field
A sheep had a prolapsed and was attended by the vet in the field (the vet delivered 2 healthy lambs, revived them and saved the ewe, it was awesome and brilliant and they are all healthy and happy but apparently it spoiled mothers day breakfast)
A fox killed a rabbit and ate it in our field
A ferral cat lives in the hedge at the side of our field
A sheep pooed when Mr Neighbour was eating breakfast

Th least one was reported to me at 7pm this eve when I was getting out of my car at the end of a 60 hour working week. He DROVE to my house to tell me a sheep pooed in his view whilst he was eating breakfast in his conservatory that he built, overlooking my field, that has been their since before my house was built, in 1762. I literally don't know know what to say to these idiots any more. AIBU to simply laugh in their faces and move on with my day

I have had wine and am feeling frazzled

I love the idea of him looking at batshit under a microscope

Is this the first recorded instance on MN if someone being quite literally batshit crazy?

My husband did once look at a hair louse - taken from my daughter's head - under a microscope. Not a pretty sight. You can see how they have a good grip though...

A bit off topic, but who cares. It’s about bats :)

All those Batty people, what is the best way to observe bats? I have a few that come out at dusk and like to put on a bit of a flying display, but the buggers are quick and won’t stay still long enough for me to ID them.

Going on our local habitat- canal, some caves and old mine shafts, i think they may be Daubenton’s bats? Although they may be pipistrelles, it is difficult to estimate size even.

So. Binoculars? Infra red high speed photography? How does one go about gathering more information?

Btw, apparently they are “bird-puppies” because of their really cute little furry faces and ability to fly.

Just scientists being logical, UrbaneSprawl

My fav method of bat watching is to go to an area they like - woodland or river are best. It must be DARK DARK so best in spring/autumn. Bring a high powered torch. Lie on the mat. Shine the torch. Wait.

First you see the moths.

Then they come. Swooping and diving :)

Awesome!!

Really - We went on a 'bat walk' at a local Wildlife Trust reserve once - they had bat detectors www.bats.org.uk/pages/bat_detectors.html and the experts could then tell them apart by their sound.

I love this thread. Haven't been able to contribute to it as I'm a townie, but with a sensible concept of the countryside. But I couldn't help but contribute the MN bat - as the subject has turned to bats

Ah, did no-one spot my surreptitious link at 23:30 on Saturday?

Apologies, Errol, I'm afraid I missed it!

Posted today by a friend that is dealing with a ‘Norman’