Unusual animals on your farm

[Treg]

We're always hearing how bad Agriculture is on wildlife so I thought I would start a positive thread on Unusual animals on your farm , I'm mainly thinking wildlife but it's also great to hear about rare breeds from cows to cats or pigs to Guinea pigs.
I'll start off with the unusual animals I've seen lately here..
Barn Owl - only started seeing them here the last 5 yrs & have nested & reared chicks? ( I know that's not the right name )1yr . Love seeing them swoop into the shed first thing in the morning.
Skylarks- been here as long as I can remember but definitely more about, their singing brightens up any day.
Kites- occasional visitor & this year a pair stayed in the valley for a few months, not seen any young ones though.
Polecats- surprised to see one run across the yard a couple of weeks ago but now I'm seeing a male & female quite regularly.

 

[MrNoo]

Pair of Peregrines, plenty of kites, black and green woodpeckers, English Partridge, hares and also some rare type of buzzard, different to the norm, seen them but cant remember what they're called, very light in colour, Roe, Fallow and muntjac. Found two dead Polecats last winter.

 

[deleted user 837354]

See both red/white and green woodpeckers in our garden a fair bit. Owls and bats plenty active enough once the sun has gone down. Living near mature woodland and old farm buildings is probably the reason.

The number of small mammals the cats has brought back is surprising there must be hundreds of them in the locality.

 

[PuG]

Sanglier
Pygmy Shrew
Hare
Red squirrel
European Wildcat
I think a Genet
Marmots
Pine or Beach martin

Vultures, many different species!
Many types of bird of prays.

Something big that occasionally kills the odd healthy large calf and eats some of them.

Lesser spotted hunter - because there to fat, inebriated and lazy (thankfully) to stray far from the road

 

[Bald Rick]

Me

 

[vantage]

Donkey. He’s a miserable fecker, should have had his nadgers off years ago.

 

[Montexy]

Last month had a large, angry Adder under a sheet of ply I picked off the ground.

 

[Treg]

Last month had a large, angry Adder under a sheet of ply I picked off the ground.

I forgot to add Adder, in the summer Ai woman screamed when she went in the shed, Adder casually slivering up through the shed

 

[Treg]

Me

It's odd how some people are conveniently placed on a island

 

[Rodgerdodger]

Seal (with a big salmon in his gob) - we own to half way across the tidal River Ouse apparently!

 

[Manney]

Had this pair in our woods this Spring

We breed Polish chickens for a bit of a hobby. They are a bit unusual and people often stop to look at them when walking on the footpath.

 

[PSQ]

Grey Partridge. Not unusual in itself, but this year we have a covey of 18. Usually see maximum 12 to 13 in a covey which will be whittled over time to 7 or 8, but seeing 18 in late September made my day.

Also saw what looked like a flock of 40+ skylarks in the middle of a newly sown wheat field. Do they come together in juvenile or adult groups in autumn, or am I somehow mistaken in my identification?

 

[TripleSix]

Goats...

We've plenty of Barn Owls, sometimes see 5-6 buzzards at once, adders, slow worms...

 

[Fast Farmer]

Seen a black panther couple of miles up the road one night, my father saw it a couple of years before early one morning, several other people in the area also reported seeing a large back cat in the same area

Other than that, seen more red kites, an apparent otter in the river, polecats and mink, but also on the flip side no Cuckoo this year for the first as long as I can remember....

 

[spin cycle]

Me

Donkey. He’s a miserable fecker, should have had his nadgers off years ago.

coincidence...perhaps not

we're the home of that most rare sheep breed 'norfolk hurdler'

 

[Al R]

Seen a black panther couple of miles up the road one night, my father saw it a couple of years before early one morning, several other people in the area also reported seeing a large back cat in the same area

Other than that, seen more red kites, an apparent otter in the river, polecats and mink, but also on the flip side no Cuckoo this year for the first as long as I can remember....

My grandparents always said that if you heard the cuckoo you’d see out the year.

Choughs, a lot of them too, in the summer they are on the cliffs but in the winter they come near the house which is a bit inland and you can get within 20’ of them.
Seals by the hundreds - in the pictures below which was 7 days ago there were 7 pups on this cove, 8-9 cows and 1 bull

 

[Fast Farmer]

My grandparents always said that if you heard the cuckoo you’d see out the year.

Choughs, a lot of them too, in the summer they are on the cliffs but in the winter they come near the house which is a bit inland and you can get within 20’ of them.
Seals by the hundreds - in the pictures below which was 7 days ago there were 7 pups on this cove, 8-9 cows and 1 bull

Oh well I'm f**ked then

 

[ARW]

Rats!

 

[Wilksy]

Pair of little owls, not sure if they've managed to nest successfully but they're there every day

 

[Rodgerdodger]

Brother has a pair of Owlets in an owl box. The parents only visit to feed them (he now has Lambcam on them). He had to get a ladder a few days back to repatriate one little adventurer.