Amazing. I heard them first and then saw them - I reckon there was about 100 of them so not a big flight but a wonderful sight nonetheless. Spring is on its way.
:)
Please or to access all these features
Please
or
to access all these features
Here you can find advice on camping, outdoor activities and walking in the UK and abroad.
MNHQ have commented on this thread
The great outdoors
outdoors shite - I saw the first flight of cranes of the year!
87 replies
FryingNemo · 27/02/2012 18:55
OP posts:
mycatsaysach ·
29/02/2012 19:27
i don't feed birds here as we have 3 cats
but when we first moved in we had a little thrush that used to tap on window for food
also a bird that impersonated a trim phone and one that sounded like a rusty old gate 
@ rl muster.Don’t want to miss threads like this?
Weekly
Sign up to our weekly round up and get all the best threads sent straight to your inbox!
Log in to update your newsletter preferences.
You've subscribed!
madwomanintheattic ·
29/02/2012 19:47
We aren't allowed to put food out for the birds as it attracts all sorts lol.
We did find a chipmunk in dd's room in the basement when ds moved a cushion, though... Spent an hour trying to shoo it out of the door.
Then the following week we kept hearing scratching in the walls, we laid a few traps and caught a chipmunk, celebrated, but the scratching didn't stop. and I eventually made dh cut a big fuck off hole in the plasterboard because it was driving me crazy. Nothing there. So I made him cut a bigger hole further back, obv.
He peeked in and then slammed it shut really quickly, holding the section in place and squealing 'quick, quick, there's two, get my work gloves and a box or bag or something'. I disappeared into the garage to find stuff and then could hear him squealing, ran back to see if he was ok (thinking, shit, rabies) and he said 'one got out!' (and apparently ran up his arm and over his shoulder in the process). So he's still holding the bit of wall in the hole, and I'm running around trying to herd the two squirrels that had escaped (!) out of the door, going 'there's two! There's two! Are you sure there's another one in there?' so he looks and drops the bit of wall, another one runs over his head, and he makes a wild grab inside the wall and comes out with two more, sort of caught by the legs and going doolally) which he runs out of the door with and launches off the deck... We spent fecking hours corralling them and getting them outside, but it was the funniest afternoon we've had in a long time. They were everywhere on the beds, climbing up the ironing board, running under the furniture.... The squirrels that flew c/o dh spent hours in one of the trees outside, chattering and swearing and staring at the house.
Dh thinks they have spent the winter plotting and will be back in the spring.
Please create an account
To comment on this thread you need to create a Mumsnet account.