What did you see on the way home?

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  • vermin
    vermin Posts: 1,739
    Good variety!

    This morning's roadkill:

    Rabbits: 5
    Squirrels: 3
    Hedgeghogs: 3
    Pigeons (Feral): 3
    Woodpigeons: 1
    Sparrows: 1
    Kestrels: 1
  • bendertherobot
    bendertherobot Posts: 11,684
    muttley_109 wrote:
    8:30 Friday morning according to the BBC. 12 fighters, a voyager and the red arrows. Should be some display.
    Someone on my face book posted a photo of a submarine last night. Still waiting for it to be verified though.

    It was good. As good as a flypast can be of course. The Arrows got a big cheer. Cardiff Bay was absolutely packed with people a lot of whom had chosen to cycle there.

    The NATO road closures seem to have rekindled a lot of cycling in the City.
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  • holiver
    holiver Posts: 729
    The sun silhouetted by the Liver Building was pretty special a couple of nights ago.
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  • Hairylegs66
    Hairylegs66 Posts: 103
    I saw a Mercedes driver who used his indicators.....
  • muttley_109
    muttley_109 Posts: 177
    bendertherobot wrote:
    muttley_109 wrote:
    8:30 Friday morning according to the BBC. 12 fighters, a voyager and the red arrows. Should be some display.
    Someone on my face book posted a photo of a submarine last night. Still waiting for it to be verified though.

    It was good. As good as a flypast can be of course. The Arrows got a big cheer. Cardiff Bay was absolutely packed with people a lot of whom had chosen to cycle there.

    The NATO road closures seem to have rekindled a lot of cycling in the City.

    unfortunately I have a stinking cold which has gone to my chest so I missed the entire thing.
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  • ugo.santalucia
    ugo.santalucia Posts: 28,310
    I normally see 1-2 grey herons, lots of swans, maybe a big rat and various species of geese and water birds, occasionally even a cormoran... however yesterday I've only seen the police tape indicating a crime scene... :cry:
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  • daddy0
    daddy0 Posts: 686
    I shared part of my journey with a kestrel yesterday. It was awesome, he/she flew right alongside me for a good minute, maybe more. I could've reached out and touched him/her if I wanted.
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  • vermin
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    Deceased:

    Rabbits: 10
    Squirrels: 2
    Foxes: 1
    Pigeons (feral): 3
    Buzzards: 1
  • rower63
    rower63 Posts: 1,991
    Daddy0 wrote:
    I shared part of my journey with a kestrel yesterday. It was awesome, he/she flew right alongside me for a good minute, maybe more. I could've reached out and touched him/her if I wanted.
    Did it have a grey head and tail, or brown? If grey, it was a male, if brown, a female or a juvenile :)
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  • porlyworly
    porlyworly Posts: 441
    On way to work on Thursday on a nice fast country road and police car flew past with sirens blaring. Couple of miles up the road there was a small white van on it's side in a ditch on a tight bend with a fella stuck inside :E
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  • MonkeyMonster
    MonkeyMonster Posts: 4,629
    dead badger last week - big fella's those guys.
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  • Ian.B
    Ian.B Posts: 732
    On the way in, a cyclist on NKR who appeared to be still in her pyjamas
  • elbowloh
    elbowloh Posts: 7,078
    Ian.B wrote:
    On the way in, a cyclist on NKR who appeared to be still in her pyjamas
    This reminds me, saw someone on Grays Inn Road on Saturday, on a road bike wearing a brown bear onesie (with the hood up, featuring a snout, teeth, whiskers etc.)
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  • roger_merriman
    roger_merriman Posts: 6,165
    Last night lots of bats. Had seen the Deer poking their antlers though the mist in the morning.
  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,692
    Not on the commute but I saw about 30 Bromptons all out for a ride together.
    What's the collective noun for Bromptons? A fold of Bromptons?
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  • daddy0
    daddy0 Posts: 686
    rower63 wrote:
    Daddy0 wrote:
    I shared part of my journey with a kestrel yesterday. It was awesome, he/she flew right alongside me for a good minute, maybe more. I could've reached out and touched him/her if I wanted.
    Did it have a grey head and tail, or brown? If grey, it was a male, if brown, a female or a juvenile :)

    'Twas all brown - reckon it must've been a female :-)

    The fields were all pretty barren as the farmer had baled all the hay up. So I reckon it was following me to see if I startled any bunnies in the hedgerow.
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  • vermin
    vermin Posts: 1,739
    Sadly departed:

    Rabbits: 4
    Squirrels: 2
    Hedgehogs:2

    A great night for Cheshire wildlife.
  • MonkeyMonster
    MonkeyMonster Posts: 4,629
    3 bunnies who dithered and then found themselves the wrong side of the path up against a fence but then couldn't escape... and I went past and they all threw carrots at me the bastards.
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  • asprilla
    asprilla Posts: 8,440
    Veronese68 wrote:
    Not on the commute but I saw about 30 Bromptons all out for a ride together.
    What's the collective noun for Bromptons? A fold of Bromptons?

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  • msmancunia
    msmancunia Posts: 1,415
    A bloke riding a moped wearing a non-visor helmet and a chimpanzee mask. Could be about to rob a bank but also possibly wearing it just because he wants to.
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  • EKE_38BPM
    EKE_38BPM Posts: 5,821
    msmancunia wrote:
    A bloke riding a moped wearing a non-visor helmet and a chimpanzee mask. Could be about to rob a bank but also possibly wearing it just because he wants to.
    In Manchester, probably the first option.
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  • vermin
    vermin Posts: 1,739
    Are you sure it wasn't just Ian Brown?
  • msmancunia
    msmancunia Posts: 1,415
    vermin wrote:
    Are you sure it wasn't just Ian Brown?

    Very good! :lol:
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  • holiver
    holiver Posts: 729
    Big fucking moon last night.
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  • vermin
    vermin Posts: 1,739
    A British Cycling van was parked 10 doors up my road. This, after a BC car drove very slowly past my house at the weekend too. Pretty sure they're tracking my Strava trace. Chaps, if you really need me, you can always pm me here. :mrgreen:
  • DennishJ
    DennishJ Posts: 1
    sometimes my road its too long :|
  • vermin
    vermin Posts: 1,739
    In memoriam:

    Rabbits: 6
    Squirrels: 2
    Hedgehogs: 1
    Badgers: 1
    Unidentified creatures: 1

    Becomming pretty certain that the BC employee has set up base to monitor my performance on a long term basis. Either that or they live on my road.
  • vimfuego
    vimfuego Posts: 1,783
    Becomming pretty certain that the BC employee has set up base to monitor my performance on a long term basis. Either that or they live on my road.[/quote]


    That or it's the NSA. If you will send those emails to Obama.........
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  • msmancunia
    msmancunia Posts: 1,415
    vermin wrote:
    In memoriam:

    Rabbits: 6
    Squirrels: 2
    Hedgehogs: 1
    Badgers: 1
    Unidentified creatures: 1

    Becomming pretty certain that the BC employee has set up base to monitor my performance on a long term basis. Either that or they live on my road.

    Well it's not me. I'm not allowed in South Manchester on account of me being too common.

    Van or car?
    Does it say Great Britain Cycling Team or does it say British Cycling? If it's the former then you're obviously being tapped up for the team, but if it's the latter then they are probably just sussing you out for a Breeze ride leader..... :cry:
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  • vermin
    vermin Posts: 1,739
    msmancunia wrote:
    Well it's not me.
    Good. Don't make me enforce that restraining order. Again.
    msmancunia wrote:
    Van or car?
    Does it say Great Britain Cycling Team or does it say British Cycling? If it's the former then you're obviously being tapped up for the team, but if it's the latter then they are probably just sussing you out for a Breeze ride leader..... :cry:

    There are two of them, a car and a van, both silver. Can't remember off the top of my head what the graphics all over them say, but it's one or the other. Will check and report back.

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