feathers are scattered all over my garden!

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so i applied my powers of deduction and called out over the fence to my neighbors, jerry and cheryl, and they told me a FOX had gotten ahold of a [insert name of native fowl here]. the scene was brutal!!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 08:58 (twenty years ago) link

i live next to a tire store!!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 08:59 (twenty years ago) link

Harsh!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/ilove/tv/basilbrush/images/basilindex.jpg

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 09:05 (twenty years ago) link

Nice to know that foxxes are civilised enough to pluck the birds before eating them.

― robster (robster), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 09:08 (twenty years ago) link

have you ever had a mouthful of feathers? Not nice.

I was sure this was going to be a CJ The Unruly thread for some reason.

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 09:10 (twenty years ago) link

i think this is actually my most mark s thread ever.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 09:10 (twenty years ago) link

i mean, EVAH

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 09:11 (twenty years ago) link

except i didn't use the word "micro-tendrils"

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 09:12 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/ilove/tv/basilbrush/images/basilindex.jpg

"that's right, twas i...and i'll do it again....good day..."

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 09:20 (twenty years ago) link

....and you didn't say Fox vs. Fowl FITE! Oh no!!!

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 09:22 (twenty years ago) link

Fox all the way baby!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 09:24 (twenty years ago) link

[insert name of native fowl here].

Chicken Licken?

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 09:25 (twenty years ago) link

& turkey lurkey!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 09:33 (twenty years ago) link

I'm starting to egret this thread.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 10:00 (twenty years ago) link

why, it's not as if you were robin someone else's idea.

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 10:03 (twenty years ago) link

Swan of my weaker efforts.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 10:21 (twenty years ago) link

No need to be modest - crow about it as much as you like!

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 10:32 (twenty years ago) link

good to see you're all pheasant and correct

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 10:56 (twenty years ago) link

maybe the way to avoid future avian carnage is buy some dogs to scare the foxes away.

I recommend spaniels. A Springer and a Cocker, too.

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 10:58 (twenty years ago) link

Jerry Springer and Jarvis Cocker? They'd be rubbish at chasing foxes away.

― C J (C J), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 11:20 (twenty years ago) link

i think this is actually my most mark s thread ever.

Just by the title alone, I was convinced it was a Mark S thread!

― Nicolars (Nicole), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 11:40 (twenty years ago) link

my garden has woodlice and snails and foxes w.jetpacks obv but no feathers currently

the roof is covered in small bones however!! (also my neighbour's lodger has pitched a tent there, but this is not connected)

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 12:00 (twenty years ago) link

it's Mark S's Rooftop Safari!

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 12:02 (twenty years ago) link

I saw a dead fox on the side of the road the other day. It had been hit by a car, but was still very much together. It was, sadly, the first fox I'd seen in a very long time.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 12:52 (twenty years ago) link

Now and again, I get to see foxes out the window where I work. Largely because the grounds are populated by cwute ickle delicious bunnies.

― robster (robster), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 12:58 (twenty years ago) link

Foxes long ago stopped being special in SW London - I see two or three a week and the fuckers keep me awake with their hideous howling.

― Mark C (Mark C), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 13:03 (twenty years ago) link

we have one that likes to sun itself on our kitchen roof. fuck knows how it gets up there

― j0e (j0e), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 13:04 (twenty years ago) link

with a jetpack of course!

My parents' milkman now refuses to leave eggs on the doorsteps as he has witnessed foxes following his milkfloat down the street and eating the eggs as he leaves them.

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 13:06 (twenty years ago) link

Dave Stelfox and the Pinefox, where are you?

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 13:39 (twenty years ago) link

sunning themselves on roofs most probably!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 14:24 (twenty years ago) link

Or picking feathers out of their teeth...

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 15:03 (twenty years ago) link

Amazing how many animals are adapting to urban and suburban environments. Reportedly in southeast DC, people see wild turkeys every so often, and a peahen took up residence in someone's backyard. Last year a deer somehow got on the White House grounds (although that was probably a protest against plans to drill in the Arctic Strategic Reserve).

― j.lu (j.lu), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 15:09 (twenty years ago) link

the urban badger is a common sight in Bristol and Oxford. The boyofbadgers, however, is not.

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 21:12 (twenty years ago) link

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