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Oh dear,annodmini,that's all you need! Domesticated wild cats coming to your back door!

In the Highlands of Scotland there are wild cats, but interbreeding with domestic cats is threatening the purity of the species.

We have mice?

I'll keep it wandering! There are still wolves in the north of Potugal,none in the south thank goodness.We have wild boar,mongooses and Azul magpies.

Three more animals to look up! The ibex horns sure are something to see!

I live on the edge of a small village and just beyond the field behind my house is a wood which has deer. Sometimes they come out into the field and I have had them almost at my garden fence, lovely to see especially with their young, also hares and pheasants (I love the way this thread has wandered )

There are brown bears in The Pyrenees, and we have marmots and chamois and ibex and wild boar. There are wolves in some European countries too.

Yes we did.

I remember they wouldn't take our Barclay card or our Jamaican dollars in the bank and we had no money!!I think we used a cheque or something in the end.

We walked in the hills and met some confederate soldiers camping in the woods who told us all about their experience of the war.. v, interesting. They were very 'in role' I remember.

It's about two hours away. did you ride the old incline ?

PS do you live near Chattanooga envious we went there years ago?

Chipmunks look cute in Disney films. We have grey squirrels as said before. They were imported from US, not sure why. They have driven the cute red squirrels out and now they can only be found in the North...Lake District and Scotland.
Bit like our rabbits who have created havoc in Australia.

If we see a lone magpie , always say hello Mr Magpie , how is your wife ?

I always have to wave to magpies; I think you can also spit when you see one but waving is much more socially acceptable . My daughter and I were also had to say White Rabbits on the first day of the month; I used to rush into her room shouting 'White Rabbits' and she would sit up in bed and shout back. I think we eased up on that one when we forgot to do it one month and nothing bad happened.

Yes I looked at a picture stoats being smaller.I also forgot little chipmunks. I have several in my yard and they sit on my stone wall and chirp like a bird.Sorry to say ive had a few moles over the years.

Stoats and weasels are very similar but different sizes.

My dear father used to ask us "How can you tell a weasel from a stoat?" His answer "A weasel is weasily distinguished, but a stoat is stoatally different"

Oh we forgot last but not least rabbits!

I'll have to look up stoats.I heard you had nettles and looked them up and found out there are stinging nettles in the US. We have copperhead and rattlesnakes!

No opossums, no groundhogs, no skunks. Foxes, weasels, stoats, badgers. Squirrels, American grey and British red. No big wild animals apart from deer. No poison ivy or poison oak. The British countryside is amazingly safe! Only one quite rare poisonous snake, the adder or viper. They are trying to reintroduce beavers and we now have a few wild boar.

Do you have poison ivy and poison oak plants? I know you have beautiful heather and wildflowers we dont have and cute hedgehogs. Do you have opossums and skunks or groundhogs?

oh sorry,you did say they were.I read too fast.

That is fun.I looked up what a magpie looks like and the ones you have,are they black and white?

"Good morning and good day to you Sir Magpie. How is your lady wife?"

hello envious A magpie is a black and white crow who eats other birds eggs.When you see them in a group you have to say a poem. There are lots of versions.

One for sorrow
Two for joy
Three for a girl
Four For a boy
Five for silver
Six for gold
Seven for a secret never to be told
Eight for a wish
Nine for a kiss
Ten for joyful bliss.

I looked at mumset a day ago and they were helping someone having a miscarriage.They were so supportive and helpful.They also had a post on saluting magpies which I found very fun since I had never heard of such and we don't even have magpies here.

My son's in law are senior hospital dentists and my daughters are nurses.
They seem to have little financial sense.
I don't think my son's in law would be capable of running their own practice.

Frank