Irish Wildlife.

[gness]

Well used to the various wild visitors in our Kerry field but....

Decorating all day in the heat and humidity. Even my straight hair had started to curl and frizz.
I went to sit outside the back door to cool off and Dave joined me. Look, he said, that twig on the wall above your head looks just like a stick insect.

He went to brush it off and it jumped. Into my hair! It was indeed a stick insect. They cling. Have you ever tried to remove a stick insect from the depths of your hair? :-(

[gness]

I'm not aware of any here, LB and those I've asked aren't either. Probably just being over cautious and a bit concerned that a farmer with chickens may not be as enamoured with foxy's friendliness as we are.

There was a clamp down by the Gardaí a few years ago on rabbit lampers in North Kerry but that was more to protect property than animals. Attempts to change lamping legislation failed. :-(

[ladybirder]

Sorry to hear that:-(

If I was a farmer and a fox got my chickens I would blame myself.

[DTCwordfan]

a friend of mine at Uni was known as 'Stick' as in insect. He took a gap year, not called that back in the early 70s - as so did I and another close mate. Unfortunately his first gf died of leaukaemia and Stick's reaction was anorexia as a male, dropping from 13 to 8 stone, hence the name. He had been the England Under-18 hockey goalie and then the Scottish Unis one too - he was notorious for heading hockey-balls off the goal line and, unfortunate for him, his weight-loss meant that he couldn't handle more than a pint of beer and he had no sense of musical rhythm, a combination that was disastrous when a pub game like 'Harry Twitters' started up. Within 30 minutes, he would be prostrate under the table.....