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vernon
Harder than Ronnie Pickering
- Location
- Meanwood, Leeds
I used to be able to rely upon seeing a dead badger every other weekend. Some rides were 'three badger' rides. Either there's been a massive road safety programme deployed amongst the badger community or their numbers have been severely depleted as I've only seen one corpse in the past eighteen months.
JonnyBlade
Live to Ride
- Location
- Gosport-Hampshire
I took a friend out to the Meon area on Saturday for his first long ride and he was amazed at the amount of road kill! Unfortunately one was even a bird of prey
I recall cycling through some of the Scottish moorlands and having to cycle near the centre of the road.Lining both edges were, what I assume, dead grouse piled 2 or 3 high in their thousands.It was very much rotten smelling borough on every single bend. June time probably.
YahudaMoon
Über Member
I seen some bizzare animal kill a few month back in the dephes of the Yorkshire Dales while out cycling
It what looked like rows and rows of crucfied rats. Like strected out by there legs on fences in a very neat straight line kind of formation. I mean hundreds of em !
The only explanation I could think of is some kind of epidemic of rats so they have done a cull and racked them up as bird food or its some kind of warning to the other rats ?
Or maybe they were drying them out in the sun and making gloves out of them ? Odd as this was in the middle of nowhere !
It what looked like rows and rows of crucfied rats. Like strected out by there legs on fences in a very neat straight line kind of formation. I mean hundreds of em !
The only explanation I could think of is some kind of epidemic of rats so they have done a cull and racked them up as bird food or its some kind of warning to the other rats ?
Or maybe they were drying them out in the sun and making gloves out of them ? Odd as this was in the middle of nowhere !
YahudaMoon
Über Member
Lol. can you tell Im not from in the sticks ? It must of been moles then. Why kill moles ? What harm do they do.
vernon
Harder than Ronnie Pickering
- Location
- Meanwood, Leeds
A domestic farm animal can break a leg through one of them dropping into a mole hole.
Arch
Married to Night Train
- Location
- Salford, UK
They killed William the Third when his horse tripped on a molehill.
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/william_iii.htm
"He was well on the way to creating a European alliance against Louis XIV when his work was cut short. On February 21st 1702, William was riding in Richmond Park when his horse stumbled on a mole hill. The king was thrown from his horse and he broke a collar bone. His weakened body could not take the shock and William died at Kensington Palace in March 8th 1702."
HLaB
Marie Attoinette Fan
I cycled down to the ToB start yesterday and tagged into a group for the last 11 miles, riders were pointing out the usual road kill 
but just before Peebles one of the riders pointed out something even bigger , I'm not sure what it was though we passed it so fast. OT a few minutes later we were pulled over by the cops 'were we speeding officer' 
nah, it was just a squadron (?) of 50 + Police bikes coming through and they thought it'd be safer to clear the road.
but just before Peebles one of the riders pointed out something even bigger , I'm not sure what it was though we passed it so fast. OT a few minutes later we were pulled over by the cops 'were we speeding officer' nah, it was just a squadron (?) of 50 + Police bikes coming through and they thought it'd be safer to clear the road.
