christmasoompa

Thought so, it was the 'sought after location' that gave it away! Head 10/15 mins towards the Hampshire border, out among the farms (there's 6 on our road alone!), and that's where we are so really close to you. Hubby commutes from Wokingham or Fleet every day.

Jerseygirl

Same here plus foxes and possums, turkey vultures but I suppose they come under the bird category. Haven't seen crayfish.

When we lived in the UK there was a river at the bottom of our garden. There was something different to see everyday...pheasants, quail, partridge, guinea fowl, newts, frogs, woodpeckers, buzzards, sparrowhawks, ducks, tawny owls, badgers, foxes, geese, bats, herons, cormorants, kingfishers, water voles, squirrels, hedgehogs.

Pulaski

We probably have possums, I see enough dead ones on the roads, we also had a black bear pass within 300ft of our property (several neighbors saw it), and coyotes have been seen within a mile. Not sure if we ever get turkeys - I've seen those within a couple of miles. No feral pigs yet though, but I hear they're on their way!

Jerseygirl

I forgot about bears and coyotes. Saw 2 coyotes at the side of the house just after we moved in.

margomonts

We had a hedgehog once hahahahahaha !!!

Sally Redux

Your laughter is starting to sound a bit manic.

Jerseygirl

hahahahahaha !!!

Sally Redux

It's catching

SultanOfSwing

There was bugger all wildlife in our back yesterday, other than my son and I having way too much fun burning leaves

Pulaski

There is so much going on that I have my own enforcement agent - a feisty cat called Stubby (born with almost no tail), who is in charge of "applied ecology". In other words she kills any rodents, reptiles, and amphibians she finds near the house before the snakes find them. .... Since we got her snakes have been conspicuous by their absence immediately around the house!

SultanOfSwing

Quite the ecosystem you maintain there

Our cat would just sit and watch the snakes eat the mice. If she ever does get out, all she does is just sit and look back in through the windows she usually stares out of ...

Pulaski

You need to adjust her hunting instinct control. .... A modest cut back in her meal size usually does the trick!

SultanOfSwing

Her hunting instincts are wholly concentrated on my feet. They're as sharp as the very claws she hacks at my skin with

Nutmegger

My current dogs are total wusses and don't go after anything. In the past I had a dog that caught an opossum and brought it into the living room (where it played dead until we'd got it outside), killed and brought home a large raccoon and was ticked that we wouldn't let her bring it indoors, and in the process of catching and killing a skunk got her son sprayed though she was untainted. She also once devoured a small turtle while making the most ghastly crunching noises. My favorite was another dog who enjoyed hunting -- she caught a snake one time and I found her waving it around her head like a lasso with a frog firmly jammed into the snake's gullet. She finally cost the snake his lunch as the frog flew out and lived to tell the tale.

Redwing

I can't say I have seen crayfish in my neck of the woods, but we do have coyotes, and they seem to love howling at night.