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Lots of large beasts

Cherrybomb

Cherrybomb

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Mr. Cherrybomb and myself moved to a new house last Autumn, and almost right away we noticed that there are several unusually large animals in our new garden/local area.

Our house has a garden, which backs onto some unused land (as do all the other gardens in our part of the street), and on the unused land area there are quite a lot of trees. We first noticed a large heron sitting in one of the trees and Mr. C took a photo. We then saw (and have seen many times since) a "King" squirrel. A gray squirrel, that seems to be about 2 times larger than any others. We also have visits from extra large magpies and crows.

Is it simply due to being in a built up area (access to food,etc), but with plenty of hiding places that they have grown so big?

One of our neighbours is a close friend and he has also remarked about the size of the local wildlife!
 
Damn, I misread the title, I thought this was going to be about big breasts.
 
Ronson8 said:
Damn, I misread the title, I thought this was going to be about big breasts.
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:lol: Well we can go off topic, and on to more titillating subjects! :yeay:
 
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No big beasts around here apart from rather chunky looking pigeons, What we do have though is black beasts. Mutant grey squirrels that have completely black fur. They look a bit like shadows of squirrels, without the squirrel. (And I read it as breasts too.. :oops: )
 
LOL @ petrosio!

I've seen photo's of black squirrels, and I think they look wonderful! I wouldn't mind some of them in my garden. It's an odd thing, I grew up in the cuntryside and have seen slightly larger animals, but there seems to be a lot of them and they seem to be really big! :shock:

Ah, now back to boobs :lol:
 
Cherrybomb,

Maybe you need to cut your loses and start this thread again. I'm not sure how we can get back on track, unless someone has seem some extraordinary beavers.

:lol:
 
Cultjunky said:
...Maybe you need to cut your loses and start this thread again. I'm not sure how we can get back on track, unless someone has seem some extraordinary beavers...
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Hmm. Thinks.

How about: 'Mr C photographed a lanky bird up the bush and then we saw an enormous furry nut-muncher, (and some more more fat birds).'

Herons do look quite disconcerting when they perch in trees - they just somehow look too tall. I think maybe we also don't tend to associate them with perching up in the canopy like that, thinking of them more as denizens of rivers and riverbanks - so it's a bit of a surprise to see them looking down on you, especially as they are relatively so large compared to anything else your likely to see up there. I love herons - still and haughty, and most definitely in charge. There's also something a bit gothic about them; they always remind me of Edward Gorey cartoons - all bony angles, sharp points and a vague sense of lethality, like violent Edwardian undertakers.

Grey squirrels do vary somewhat in size, but I've never seen one which is remarkably large. I did seen 'King' rabbit once though (as in ...'king hell, have you seen the size of that ...'king rabbit.) Seriously, it was enormous - well, for a rabbit it was enormous.
 
:lol: Oh dear, what a wonderful Freudian slip I made :oops:

I don't think we can get back OT after that! LOL
 
cherrybomb said:
It's an odd thing, I grew up in the c**tryside and have seen slightly larger animals, but there seems to be a lot of them and they seem to be really big! :shock:
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Are you sure you're not shrinking? ;)
 
You might be on to something there rynner2 :lol:
 
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