Holy Cow! Or not, as the case may be.

[Joey Shabadoo]

We were driving up to stay with friends in Scotland a couple of years ago and, as we got near their village, I spotted a camel in a field and remarked on it to Mr R who, being fully immersed in his iPad simply grunted and didn't bother looking. I mentioned the camel to our hosts over dinner that night, who laughed and said I was seeing things. There was no camel in the area.

As it happened we all drove past the same farm on our way to Stirling a day or so later. We all looked by no camel but there were some llamas in the field... so then the ribbing started - the suggestions I needed glasses, couldn't tell the difference between a camel and a llama, had been smoking wacky-baccy, etc.

This went on most of the week until we all happened to be driving past the farm again and I decided I'd had enough. I turned into the farm and knocked on the door. A woman answered and I said to her "I'm not mad but did I see a camel in the field over there the other day?"

"Yes" she said, "but we've moved him to another field. Do you want to see him again?"

It runs out they had quite a collection of exotic and rare breed animals on the farm. And certain people had to apologise

This "farm"near Stirling, didn't have a big sign at the gate did it?

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Ah right. For some reason they wouldn't let me cycle through Blair Drummond.

 

[Drago]

It's been spotted again today by a farmer just a few hundred yards from my place. He got right up close to him.

 

[Vapin' Joe]

Apparently they're incredibly dumb animals. I remember reading somewhere about what a nightmare it was filming Skippy the Bush Kangaroo, because unlike, say, dogs, you just cannot get a wallaby to do anything to order. You just have to wait until they do something approximately right, and if necessary re-jig the script around what you've actually managed to catch on film

Why do we class animals that can be trained to sit and walk to order as intelligent and those that take no notice and do their own thing as dumb? I'd say it was the other way round.

 

[w00hoo_kent]

I've been told there are green parrots in one of my local parks but I've never seen them.

Greenwich Park has loads of green parakeets in it. Noisy things. Having now had a chance to walk around Avery HIll park, I think they may have some too, but not nearly as many.

 

[Chris S]

Greenwich Park has loads of green parakeets in it. Noisy things. Having now had a chance to walk around Avery HIll park, I think they may have some too, but not nearly as many.

One of my ambitions is to see a feral parakeet. If I'm ever in London I'll go over there.

 

[Chris S]

One of my ambitions is to see a feral parakeet. If I'm ever in London I'll go over there.

I won't have to leave Birmingham now, they've reached the south east of the city.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-42638308
They seem to be migrating along the London to Birmingham train line.