I was awoken this morning at 2.30 by a buzzing noise which i thought was a faulty connection in a light circuit. On venturing outside the bedroom I see the cat prowling on a creature which leapt up and buzzed aroung the light on the landing. After repeatedly beating it about its body I examined the lifeless corpse, Bugger me it was a bloody inch long geet fat WASP , what the hell are they doing out in this cold weather????

-- Anonymous, January 07, 2002

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That's what his family would have said

-- Anonymous, January 07, 2002

Found a bee in my car on Saturday. It didn't look too pleased when I opened the window on which it was resting at 70mph on the A1 (er, no it wasn't resting at 70mph). Bye-bye bee-bee bye-bye.

-- Anonymous, January 07, 2002

Lot of spiders out, too.

-- Anonymous, January 07, 2002

there are bats with 1.5 meter wingspans out side my window. Still, thats Sydney for ya.

-- Anonymous, January 07, 2002

Feck me......saw 31,000 stinkin' rats on TV last week.....singing "you'll never walk alone"....YUK!!!!!!!!!

-- Anonymous, January 07, 2002

At least they were all locked up in big enclosures, not running around on yer lawn

-- Anonymous, January 07, 2002

Interesting Kenny, in the frozen far north last week a butterfly visited our kitchen which is not excactly a sauna. Question cos one of the best things about this forum , there is always someone who knows, June has 5 feeders for the wild birds on a tree outside, we love just sitting there watching them feed, especially in this weather, find it more relaxing than a fish tank!! Usual varieties of small birds , plus 4 ciskerns , anyway this med size bird , whitish front and a pronounced fantail appears each day and its sole duty is to protect the small birds feed (on ground) from the larger birds , blackbirds etc, it really is the peoples champ and deserves some kind of recognition , I have the usual at hand birdy books but I cannot for the life of me name it, torn between mistle thrush /sparrow hawk, anyone any suggestions.

-- Anonymous, January 07, 2002

Funnily enough I was awoken this morning at 2.30 by what sounded like chickens having a fight. When I looked out the window a fox was getting stuck into a pigeon. What a noise. There wasn't a feather left this morning

-- Anonymous, January 07, 2002

While up in Edwin's Kingdom over New Year I saw a bird about the size of a thrush, possibly slightly smaller, with similar markings - but it was bright yellow!

Any ornithologists out there?

I believe it was too big to be a goldfinch, and had different markings. The only other yellow bird I can think of is a Yellowhammer - that's not just another name for a goldfinch is it?

-- Anonymous, January 07, 2002

There's something very Stephen King about all these unseasonal apparitions.

-- Anonymous, January 07, 2002

It's all a sign that we'll win the league. Or not. Not that I'm superstitious at all... ;-)

-- Anonymous, January 07, 2002

Serious stuff this,never mentioned my two regular magpies,c`mon folks as Frank McAvennie was apt to say "Wheres the Burds", in my case one!

-- Anonymous, January 07, 2002

Too small for your description Clarky but yellow enough is this Siskin

Pic of the Mistle Thrush, these are scary when protecting what's considered "theirs"

Pics of popular British birds can be found Here

-- Anonymous, January 08, 2002

Well thanks for that Tony. Checked it out, and I'm now certain it was a Yellowhammer, ie. bigger than a finch. Just goes to show what an encyclopaedia of knowledge this bbs really is!

-- Anonymous, January 08, 2002

You sure it wasn't a spuggie with jaundice?

-- Anonymous, January 08, 2002

Great site! Will have to study it further before my next trip. Saw all kinds of birds I'd not really seen before, and thus had no idea what they were called.

-- Anonymous, January 08, 2002