Favourite wildlife spotted whilst commuting

[jonny jeez]

Not an astounding "spot" but I had a fantastic ride along side a pigeon in Hyde park a while back. It came at me from the left and flew along for a hundred feet or so at the same level as my face...I felt a bit like David Attenborough.

 

[brickisred]

Not an astounding "spot" but I had a fantastic ride along side a pigeon in Hyde park a while back. It came at me from the left and flew along for a hundred feet or so at the same level as my face...I felt a bit like David Attenborough.

Or Dick Dastardly!

 

[jayonabike]

I often see deer, pheasants, rabbits. And foxes and badgers when i'm cycling at night. If i cycle down a particular lane there's one house which has their chickens running free outside and often have to swerve out of their way. And the other day i had a red kite hovering overhead.

jay

 

[automatic_jon]

Cycling in the city I've got so used to seeing rats in broad daylight by the side of the road I was so surprised whilst I was staying with my parents, when I looked down to see a partridge running along side me I nearly fell off.

Other than that I've seen a few deer, foxes, an amazingly peeved looking badger and what I still believe to have been a pterodactyl, but possibly might not have been.

 

[buggi]

I've seen camels!!!! that was a bit of a shock ha ha. the circus was in town and they were looking over the fence at me

any bird of prey that joins you while you cycle i think.

 

[monnet]

I've not seen much wildlife on my commute.

Highlights on clubruns/ leisure rides have been deer and once a pheasant running in front of me to launch it's take off (very scary as it was on a 40mph descent!)

On my commute this week though, I have seen a dead badger, a dead fox, a dead cat, a dead mouse and a dead pheasant. That's alot of dead animals.

I did once see a dead badger, on it's back, rigamortis set in with it's black and white snout just visible and, in my world of cycling daydreaming, think for a split second, 'Sh1t, a panda!'

 

[Riverman]

I saw a rat next to me yesterday, I hate the damn things, absolute vermin menace. Wondered if it was possible to run him down, I could have but I decided to leave him alone.

You can easily match their speed on the bicycle.

 

[Riding in Circles]

Other than the occasional black panther I have to make do with rats, squirrels and students.

 

[Stephen-D]

I see a lot of Wild Deer and Pheasants, one of the dumbest animals around (Pheasant), I see a lot of them dead by the road and I see a lot of live ones just standing around in the middle of the road looking directly at traffic as if trying to ascertain what’s coming towards them.

 

[Browser]

Ride of the dead at first tonight, four vehicle-impacted wood pigeons and a hen phesant which had been vulcanised into the tarmac of the B1040. I did see a heron, barn owl and hare, all alive (especially the hare, boy he was moving!).

 

[slowmotion]

A flight of about twelve geese flying low down the Chelsea Embankment, as the sun was going down. Magic stuff.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

It was the big cock pheasant I wasn't impressed with this morning, it wandered out into the road saw me panicked and flew straight at my head, I had to duck under it. I have seen a lot of them over the time I have been doing Sunday runs, also rabbits, squirrels and birds. I have also occasionally seen foxes and muntjack deer. The birds I have heard on several occasions but never seen are woodpeckers, they make an impressive sound hammering on a tree.

 

[Browser]

The birds I have heard on several occasions but never seen are woodpeckers, they make an impressive sound hammering on a tree.

Funnily enough I saw one tonight as I was cycling in (forgot to say earlier) a green woodpecker, which flew ahead of me and alighted on a tree for a few seconds until he realised I was still coming along behind him, then he left. Whilst glancing up the drive of Willow Hall so see if I could see him, I was treated to the rear view of a gen-ew-ine metallic blue Lamborghini Countach Anniversary parked on the drive, I tried not to drool too much.

 

[Moodyman]

Can Romani people be described as wildlife?

Other notable spots have been a fox, a hare and some agrarian animals - horses, cows, sheep, etc

 

[Downward]

Does a wasp in the helmet count ?!