Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
On today's ride through Salcey forest.
What animals have you seen on your rides?
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I keep trying to do this lightweight malarkey but I'm no good at it. In my defence, I did spend two nights at the campsite and I did take pots, pans & utensils for "proper" cooking (even though I only cooked porridge and made coffee). I did weigh my bags - 28kg in total
Edit: My tent is advertised at 3.02 kg but with extra groundsheet, pegs etc., comes in at 3.79kg.
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Are you sure that isn't a mirror?
sevenfourate
Devotee of OCD
- Location
- Lowestoft, Suffolk
HLaB
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I wish I had had a head cam going through Fineshade Woods. At a fairly open section a buzzard swooped down only to turn a few feet from my head. Maybe he mistook me for prey 
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Cathryn
Legendary Member
- Location
- Marlborough, Wiltshire
Pretty sure I saw a white-tailed eagle today just SW of Alderbury near Salisbury! We were cycling and I saw an enormous bird flying low across a field. My first thought was that it was an eagle but clearly that was very unlikely in Wiltshire! Then I thoughte it must be a red kite but the tail was wrong and I noticed it was white.
This evening I had the chance to do some research and kept coming up with a white tailed eagle. Again I assumed this was impossible in Wiltshire but then I found out about a White Tailed eagle who does indeed live on the Hampshire Wiltshire border! I’m pretty confident I saw it today! What a privilege!
This evening I had the chance to do some research and kept coming up with a white tailed eagle. Again I assumed this was impossible in Wiltshire but then I found out about a White Tailed eagle who does indeed live on the Hampshire Wiltshire border! I’m pretty confident I saw it today! What a privilege!
https://photos.app.goo.gl/X57BEHNoXmfijhhj6
Mink in the canal at Maryhill
Mink in the canal at Maryhill
otherself
Fully lugged in.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
I saw a Hoopoe once while cycling in Norfolk. Very rare in the UK. They only breed in Spain, Portugal and southern to central France. they just occasionally overshoot their breeding grounds and a 100 or so end up in the UK (usually the south coast), especially during a warm early spring.
(not my photo)
I've also seen badgers, owls, foxes, eagles, hawks.... usually on early morning rides.
I also swear i saw a huge cat once (like a puma?) in the late summer evening of 1997, around dusk 9:45pm. There were sightings in the area of the time (Leicestershire). It was near Frisby on the Wreake, near Melton Mowbray. Scared the shoot outta me but was a good 200 meters away in a field.
http://www.bigcats.org.uk/panthermap.html
(not my photo)
I've also seen badgers, owls, foxes, eagles, hawks.... usually on early morning rides.
I also swear i saw a huge cat once (like a puma?) in the late summer evening of 1997, around dusk 9:45pm. There were sightings in the area of the time (Leicestershire). It was near Frisby on the Wreake, near Melton Mowbray. Scared the shoot outta me but was a good 200 meters away in a field.
http://www.bigcats.org.uk/panthermap.html
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ExBrit
Über Member
- Location
- Southern California
I have seen mountain lions and a couple of bears. The bears hear me and run away making a lot of noise which is the only reason I know they are there. Mountain lions just stand and watch, probably wondering if I'm worth attacking. No tigers though.
The coolest thing I ever saw were two peccaries by the side of the road with really interesting stripes and spots on their coats.
Ooh, I haven't seen a hoopoe since I was a teenager. They used to nest every spring in a hole in the wall of our old farmhouse in Galicia. One spring they just didn't show up, and never came back again. 😒
DogmaStu
Senior Member
A small group of us rescued an eagle in Portugal a couple of years ago when we were mountain biking. It had damaged a wing so we took it to the nearest vet.
I've seen plenty of snakes over the years on hot tarmac. Rabbits etc on trails too.
Doing MTB in Marloth Park, which is a small residential area South of Kruger National Park in South Africa where some of the main park's less dangerous residents lived meant I would see giraffe, various buck, zebra etc every ride on the same trails as I was on. We had giraffe greet us on the balcony of our house there and zebra enter the kitchen looking for food.
Miss those rides!
I've seen plenty of snakes over the years on hot tarmac. Rabbits etc on trails too.
Doing MTB in Marloth Park, which is a small residential area South of Kruger National Park in South Africa where some of the main park's less dangerous residents lived meant I would see giraffe, various buck, zebra etc every ride on the same trails as I was on. We had giraffe greet us on the balcony of our house there and zebra enter the kitchen looking for food.
Miss those rides!
Fastpedaller
Senior Member
I live in Norfolk....... A hoopoe (with a blurry photo in local newspaper) was reported recently.
- Location
- Inside my skull
Nice selfie but what wildlife did you see?
- Location
- Inside my skull
Plenty of Muntjac, badgers, hares and owls, and Red Kites at the moment. Read kites tend to be common year round these days, health local population.
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