Nature in Aberdeen..

[Nev]

Surely tons of snails would break the branch and fall to the ground to be crushed underfoot when you arrive home from a drunken night out. It's strangely sad but satisfying experience standing on snails accidently.

And it only ever happens after a drunken night out.. Due to impaired vision, or the snails congregating in the paths of drunken people?

[WoodyRATM]

haha suicidal snails..awesome.

I live near a nature reserve (if it can be called that..).the gramps..

i see deer all the time. including proper stags, and like deer looking for mates....im only guessing here since the bugger looked and sounded evil and i was walking my very deerlike dog. She chased it away...mustnt have been love..

I have seen a few badgers, foxes, voles etc...

always see magpies, bats and the like.

Occasional rabbits, though the last one i saw had its throat slit from the looks of it...gads.

[Alkaline]

I got chased up a tree by a badger once. They're grumpy fuckers and move alarmingly fast.

[jackson]

Anybody read about that guy from Newmachar that got gored up by a Buzzard a couple of days ago whilst jogging. Absolutely fucking terrifying.

yeah man i read about that! lol i loved the interview with him. something like " so how big was it?"

"well i dont really know, it was on my head"

[Hog]

On occasional walk back from work....deer, foxes, woodpeckers etc

Various hawks, hedgehogs, bats, otters etc elsewhere.....once saw an elephant at the beach (true)

Noticable shortage of hairy caterpillars nowadays?(

I saw one outside the Drumossie Hotel (Inverness) in Feb last year.

[Chris]

Saw heaps of hairy caterpillers on Benachie last summer.

[Frosty Jack]

Saw heaps of hairy caterpillers on Benachie last summer.

Sue they weren't just wearing wooly jumpers? Did they have hundreds of little hiking boots on?

[Alan Cynic]

When I was little there used to be lots of hairy caterpillars in Mastrick. Other common wildlife for us....forkytails, grubs, hedgehogs...and of course all the foot & mouth cows they buried at Sheddocksley. What fun we had watching the bodies being pushed into pits by bulldozers:up:

In our house we had mice in the cupboard under the stairs.

I nearly got stung to death by wasps (according to the doctor) when a swarm of the wee nyaffs attacked me. It was sore.

Nowadays the most exciting things in my flat are slaters and woodworm beetles.

Balvack had a stoat invasion recently....ace!!!!

[Chris]

Sue they weren't just wearing wooly jumpers? Did they have hundreds of little hiking boots on?

Dunno, wasn't paying a lot of attention. I was far too busy fending off the fucking hundreds of flies that were following me all the way up the hill.

[pogofish]

Apparently there's Peregrine Falcons nesting at St Mark's Cathedral..

Yup. You often see them hunting or sitting in the trees at Union Terrace Gardens. Think a pair nests on St Nicholas House as well.

I often watch the Dolphins - Early morning is a good time to see them right in the harbour basin at Pocra Quay/Torry.

Red Squirrels are established along the Dee from RGU upwards & deer are all round the fringes.

Deer are all round the fringes of the city.

I saw a fox killing a cat on Riverside Drive one night & occasionally, seals/seal cubs haul-out on the lower stretches of the Dee. A few years back, a Pelican turned-up by the Duthie Park but that was an escapee from a private sanctuary in the IOM.

In the winter, small whales often turn-up off Girdle Ness

One year, I counted 9 different hedgehogs in/coming into my garden & despite now having 5 dogs in close proximity, I still see them fairly often. Daft wee things, my cats are totally bemused by them! A Kestrel & a Sparrowhawk also hunted across the area - you could set your watch by the Sparrowhawk, every day for an entire summer.

I also was once called to a unit in Northfield where we removed a pair of Black Widows with a large & about to hatch ball of eggs - They had come-in with some bit of imported equipment & had survived several months in the yard, including a spell of very cold weather before they opened it up & found them.

[Mr Owl PhD]

I see there's now an offical 'Peregrine watch' in Aberdeen:

BBC NEWS | Scotland | North East/N Isles | Falcons take to skies of Aberdeen

If anyone's graduating at Marischal College this week then you'll probably see a family of Peregrines flying about the rooftops. They were making lots of noise this morning too.

[Mr Owl PhD]

This wasn't quite in Aberdeen, but earlier in the year there was a White-tailed Eagle at Loch of Strathbeg. I like this picture of it. It's really quite big.

[RicoAUBL]

my old house in bieldside had loads of wildlife around it

- mostly cos it was next to the forest

we had a lot of hedgehogs, deer, rabbits, foxes etc. usual countryside stuff

i always see some big birds of prey hanging out by the road out to westhill..

saw a massive sea bird down at the beach one time..

i think it was broke cos it didnt look like it wanted to fly

not sure what it was exactly.. but it was huuuge

:]

one time... i saved a bunch of baby squirrels that lived in our roof at our house in Reading

we were pulling out some insulation and i found them nesting in there..

the mummy one came.. then ran away

so i took them outside in a box

and she took them up a tree one by one..

it was one of those awwww.. moments

[Guest Savant]

I saw a fox on the grass behind the bus shelter opposite the morrisons petrol station (just next to mounthooly roundabout) a couple of weeks ago.

[Guest Jake Wifebeater]

Had a close encounter with a crow outside Iceland in Woodside a few weeks ago. Felt a thump on top of my head and looked up to see it flying off. It didn't peck or scratch or anything, guess it just swooped down for a caper.

[Dayeth]

I've got a cat

[Guest Jake Wifebeater]

I've got a cat

"Time spent with cats is never wasted".

[Guest Savant]

I hate cats.

[Hog]

Had a close encounter with a crow outside Iceland in Woodside a few weeks ago. Felt a thump on top of my head and looked up to see it flying off. It didn't peck or scratch or anything, guess it just swooped down for a caper.

It would of thought that your chest was a nest.

[framheim]

i stopped off at the peregrine watch just now, got a cracking view of one of the adults just sitting atop the triple kirks watching the world go by.

[Guest Jake Wifebeater]

It would of thought that your chest was a nest.

Possibly, in that case the fucking thing had X-ray vision because I had a T-shirt on. Going topless in Woodside is not an option, irrespective of gender.