What do you miss seeing in the country side

[Drago]

Posses of yokels with pitchforks and burning torches.

 

[Salty seadog]

Scarecrows* outside themed village scarecrow events

* - proper scarecrows, like Worzel Gummidge (but without the talking / head swapping / Aunt Sally fixation), rather than a tatty old hiviz jacket stuck on a pole.

I passed two together in a field yesterday, one holding a guitar the other a mic.

 

[NorthernDave]

Posses of yokels with pitchforks and burning torches.

Still get that in a couple of villages around here - good for keeping the average speed up though.

 

[Pale Rider]

Posses of yokels with pitchforks and burning torches.

Bobbies on bicycles.

 

[fossyant]

See much more now I'm on the MTB -

 

[classic33]

Quiet country roads, slower pace of life.

 

[classic33]

Other than at shows, horse drawn ploughs, hay rakes and mowers

 

[Bollo]

Posses of yokels with pitchforks and burning torches.

Come to the New Forest next time there’s a Wiggle ride.

 

[pawl]

All sorts of things are springing to mind following every ones replies.One abiding memory was from my child hood during the late forties in Loughborough was tar beig laid on the street where I I lived and then rolled flat by a massive steam roller.Ican almost smell the tar and the smoke from the roller.
None of your chuck a load of gravel onto wet tar.Proper roa d repairs.

 

[Beebo]

Stubble burning was always an impressive sight.
I guess it has been banned now.

 

[Levo-Lon]

there is loads near you, wild deer, owls, birds of pray, rabbits, foxes, badgers.

True but birds are far less abundant.
Ive not seen a Yellow Hammer or a Linnet or many other small bird species for decades.
Lots as a kid.
Red Kite are abundant now which is nice

 

[Hill Wimp]

We have stacks of hay bales rather than haystacks
[QUOTE 5264159, member: 9609"]Both red listed

still plenty Yelllow Hammers round here but havn't seen a Linnet for ages, they seem to have gone from this neck of the woods.

Cuckoos are the ones that sadden me, used to here them all the time, now its an increasingly rare event, may be just 2 or 3 times this year.[/QUOTE]
Lots of Linnetts on the Kent marshes and lots of cuckoo's on North Uist in the Western Isles. Currently in Perth on a stop over coming down from the Western Isles.

Want to turn around and go back

 

[Dirk]

Posses of yokels with pitchforks and burning torches.

You've obviously not been to Chulmleigh.........

 

[Drago]

Werewolves.

Wicker men full of burning sacrifices.

Druids roaming the landscape.

 

[classic33]

White dog poo.

Cow pats, now it's more like water.