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  • 20-10-2010 12:28am
    #1
    mawk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,738 ✭✭✭


    hey ah

    So I was out for a wander this evening as I'm wont to do, and an otter swam past me. maybe 5 feet away.. It was pretty weird, Ive never seen one before, but I got a very good view of him. Its great to see wild animals nowadays

    Anyone else seen any good fauna lately?


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  • #2
    alwaysadub
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    Were you walking past a river or the sea? It'd be really weird if you weren't! :D


  • #3
    [Deleted User]
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    alwaysadub wrote: »
    Were you walking past a river or the sea?

    mawk wrote: »
    an otter swam past me.



    Well, unless he has a huge bathroom...


  • #4
    karlog
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,563 ✭✭✭karlog


    Say a rabbit outside my house this morning eating some carrots. Saw him again this evening on my dinner table with some carrots to the side.

    How Ironic


  • #5
    Sauve
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    I saw a dead hedgehog on the road this morning - does that count as wildlife?!


  • #6
    mawk
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    Sauvignon82 wrote: »
    I saw a dead hedgehog on the road this morning - does that count as wildlife?!

    nah, counts as wilddead


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  • #7
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    I saw a fish in my kitchen this evening.

    The bastard was breaded so I ate him with some chips.

    You don't hear me going on about it though, do you?


  • #8
    df1985
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,432 ✭✭✭df1985


    seen a fox in leixlip a while back in a housing estate, beautiful little animal.

    had to break for a hedgehog on my road, let the little lad cross. hedgehogs seem common enough round here, my neighbour had one in the back garden for a good while, fed him etc.

    a few years back i was walking the back roads of leixlip up the back of intel and a stag bounded out over the hedgerow, bolted across the road and over a fence into a field. absolutely huge, didnt think we had them that big in ireland. size of a horse, huge antlers on him.


  • #9
    Goldenegg
    Closed Accounts Posts: 352 ✭✭Goldenegg


    mawk wrote: »
    nah, counts as wilddead
    Counts as roadkill ;)


  • #10
    artanevilla
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 10,969 Mod ✭✭✭✭artanevilla


    There's a little hamster sitting in a cage in my room. Must be their season. I've never seen a cage in the wild before, to have one come into my room is astonishing.


  • #11
    policarp
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    We have two frogs in our back garden for the last few years.
    Our back garden is completely walled in, so we have no idea how they got there.
    We only see them on wet evenings though.


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  • #12
    policarp
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    No kangaroo sightings yet??


  • #13
    whitesands
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    mawk wrote: »
    hey ah

    So I was out for a wander this evening as I'm wont to do, and an otter swam past me. maybe 5 feet away.. It was pretty weird, Ive never seen one before, but I got a very good view of him. Its great to see wild animals nowadays
    Wild otters don't do that, I suspect it's some inland waterways quango releasing them back into our waterways :rolleyes: Forget the fish stocks, let's just put dumb/tame otters in.

    The idiot that came up with the idea is probably getting paid a fortune :mad:

    Wild otters are wild & can fend for themselves throughout the winter, they don't swim within 5 feet of people ;)


  • #14
    mawk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,738 ✭✭✭mawk


    whitesands wrote: »
    Wild otters don't do that, I suspect it's some inland waterways quango releasing them back into our waterways :rolleyes: Forget the fish stocks, let's just put dumb/tame otters in.

    The idiot that came up with the idea is probably getting paid a fortune :mad:

    Wild otters are wild & can fend for themselves throughout the winter, they don't swim within 5 feet of people ;)

    Im an angler so I wholly agree with the repopulation ire.
    It was a wild sea ottor today, I was up above it so it might never have looked up to see me


  • #15
    davyjose
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,287 ✭✭✭davyjose


    mawk wrote: »
    an otter swam past me.
    alwaysadub wrote: »
    Were you walking past a river or the sea?
    Deleted User wrote: »
    Well, unless he has a huge bathroom...
    Why commas exist!


  • #16
    dubdad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 64 ✭✭dubdad


    seen a red squirrel in dublin last yr!


  • #17
    whitesands
    Closed Accounts Posts: 326 ✭✭whitesands


    mawk wrote: »
    Im an angler so I wholly agree with the repopulation ire.
    It was a wild sea ottor today, I was up above it so it might never have looked up to see me
    In cork? A sea otter?


  • #18
    mawk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,738 ✭✭✭mawk


    davyjose wrote: »
    Why commas exist!

    parenthesising is for bards and raconteurs, not joe soap storytellers like myself.


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