Owl on a bike

[domd1979]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/staffordshire/7281697.stm

 

[Arch]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/staffordshire/7281697.stm

Excellent!

No need for a bell. Just give the owl a poke in the back and you get a nice "twit, twit" (or twoo, twoo, depends which sex does which, I forget...)

 

[mr Mag00]

damn you arch i was just thinking about typing that

 

[Pete]

I may have mentioned already, that my avatar - well not the actual individual in the avatar, but one of his/her cousins - once hitched a lift on my son's handlebars for several miles.

 

[Speicher]

Excellent!

No need for a bell. Just give the owl a poke in the back and you get a nice "twit, twit" (or twoo, twoo, depends which sex does which, I forget...)

Excuse me, Arch, (t)wooo are you calling a twit?

 

[wafflycat]

The nearest I've had to that is an owl flying alongside me as I pootle the lanes.

 

[trustysteed]

The nearest I've had to that is an owl flying alongside me as I pootle the lanes.

that would have made you pootle your pants!

 

[wafflycat]

It was quite lovely! The owl, not the pootling in my pants...

Also had a hawk fly alongside a time or two.

The other morning when I was out sur 'bent, a deer (hind) ran across the road right in front of me.

 

[Keith Oates]

I once saw a seagull attacking a jogger on the sea front road at South Shields, the jogger wasn't smiling that's for sure!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Andy in Sig]

On the way into work this morning a fox crossed the road in front of me and then stood on the verge, so I pulled up the car level with him/her and we stared at each other in a friendly sort of way for about 30 secs. It was quite companionable. Then I had to bugger off because another car appeared.

 

[Mac66]

My commute is pretty much out in the sticks, so I get to see plenty of wild life.

My best wildlife experience was cycling along as a bird of prey followed parallel for about a mile. Wonderful stuff.

 

[Andy in Sig]

I wonder if that is because cyclists occasionally startle mice causing them to scurry off and some hawks cotton on to this, similar to seagulls following tractors at ploughing time.