What unusual creature have you seen in your garden

[puddicat]

Have had so many different kind of birds, sparrows,robins,magpies,wood pigeon,bluetits,chaffinches,bullfinches,starlings,and some thrushes,crows seagulls grey doves even, had a toad squirrel hedgehog and we think a weasel!

[thugulike]

Red squirrels and we had a partridge nest in the garden last year. Woodpeckers and pheasants are common too.

[puddicat]

Lucky you! we have a pond across the road where there are some fantastic birds, only last week opened my curtains to see a canadian snow goose waddling up the path! must have lost its bearings, it was massive!a chap got out of his car and guided the goose back over the main road it was really funny looking at the drivers faces as this huge bird stopping traffic,

[hammerman]

Are you anywhere near Lewes In a pickle ?

We get lots of bloody Herons because our garden backs onto the floodplains in Lewes. Cuckoos and woodpeckers are plentiful as are all the common garden birds.

However, a few years ago, a little egret came and landed in the garden i look after at work. Didn't stay long as the crows chased it away.

[China Doll]

My dad has lots of those green parrots that got released accidently in Richmond (I think) in his garden and I saw a hedgehog and a little frog in the garden at my previous place. There was also a koi (is that right? the fish in ponds?) in the back garden recently but I suspect the cat may have had something to do with that!

[bensmum]

I had a cow in my garden once! I had a knock on the door one evening and there was this rather out of breath policeman there to say that he had chased this cow up my road and into my garden. It was quite comical because there were two police cars and a rapid response ambulance blocking my drive to keep th poor thing in.
Other than that I have had deer, squirrels, foxes, rabbits and rats! Loads of different birds too.

[firewatch]

blue tits goldfinches greater spotted woodpeckers, he is called victor, starlings,crows, kites,buzzards,magpies pigeons collared doves,rabits , hares, newts, toads, tadders, grass snakes, worms, all the common and garden birds,shrews mice,ferral cats (do they count?)bats, owls,hedgehogs,sheep
,um what else?
no think thats it!

[Kleiber]

OK - competition time, is it? (That's a joke, everyone!) : Newts, frogs, toads, kites, buzzards, siskins, goldcrests, chaffinches, swallow (still no sign of the female), sparrow pair (chuffed about them - saw them again today!), wood pigeons, jays, jackdaws, ravens, goshawk. Chickens, sheep, cats, dogs & us!!! Oh, and 2 bunnies (pets). There are hares about a mile up, on the mountain.

[puddicat]

Hi klieber havent been on this site for sometime! and i thank you for the support you gave me possibly you cant remember! had to laugh cos the first persons i saw on line were knobby and legend nothing has changed

[Kleiber]

I remember, puddicat - it's good to hear from you again!! Hope you're well. Love, K xx

[Kleiber]

Nice one, noknowledge!! Sounds like my mother-in-law, except she's fat & wrinkly!! (well, she was last time I saw her, 18 years ago, before she stopped talking to us!!)

[tigerlily11]

Had a Hawk moth kind of thing in my garden, two of them no less. I was told on this site what it was but I can't quite remember what its called but it looked a bit like one of those hummingbird moths.

[Kleiber]

Lucky b*t*h, noknowledge!! She didn't even get in touch when her son (my hubby) died! Sorry, puddicat - hi-jacked a bit here, didn't mean to!!

[Kleiber]

Tigerlilly, talking about hawk moths, it was so funny the other night to see my little cat, Monty, trying to catch two of them through the glass on the kitchen window!!

[firewatch]

there are variants on the hummingbird hawk moths which in recent years have spread from france to our shores, i will never forget my first sight of these funny creatures in my old back garden in coastal somerset.

[bronners]

Yes we have owls we have an owl nest in the barn at the bottom of our garden as we live on a farm in the boonies and we watch them bring up there young and feed them but there sreech owls and tend to make alot of noise during the night but its fantastic watching them

[rayѕparx1]

Very lucky where I live in North Wales, from my garden and in my garden the favourites are sparrow hawks, buzzards,weasels, fox, badgers, heron,woodpecker, siskin, and all the normal birds, ie: thrush, house martin,green tit, blue tit,chaffinch, I feel very privileged and will never ever leave my cottage.