What a privilege! Unusual things in our gardens.

Yes, Nanthewiser, my daughter in SW London has crowds of them in her garden too, but they’re not a common sight in this part of Dorset. There are some of the larger red parrots in parts of Bournemouth, further east.

So I still claim an unusual sighting on my sister’s behalf.

Not in the garden but on the road outside our house - a magnificent stag, nonchalantly wandering along.

We live in the middle of a large, busy village.

We have a pair of blue tits setting up home in our nesting box for the third year running.

3 pairs of rooks now. Stealing twigs from each others nests

I once found a large friendly pig in my garden, I lived near several farms at the time.

Delila

Does my sister’s unusual sighting count? This morning she saw a green parakeet in her garden on the Dorset coast.

When we lived in Essex green parakeets were common and breeding profusely!

About 40 years ago I saw a pair of turtle doves in the oak tree in our garden. But only once. We were living in the countryside at the time. Also a pied flycatcher. We live by a canal in the middle of a city now so just Canada geese, ducks, cormorants and the occasional heron

Helps if weknow which part of the world you are in???? Australia?

Interesting nature sightings for me are usually at our allotment site and include a badger (last May about 7,30pm), we'd thought we had badgers visiting but this was the first sighting and a wildlife camera subsequently set up revealed several visited. A Camberwell Beauty butterfly - a Jersey Tiger moth - caterpillars of the Toadflax moth and of the Mullen moth. A 'wasp spider'. We have Foxes here and regularly see them day times.

We’ve had muntjac deer in our garden, much to DH’s disgust (they destroyed our sweetcorn crop) plus green woodpeckers, redwings and fieldfares.
Oh, and a friendly black lab that had escaped from the nearby farm. I think he was after food, he forced his way through the thick hedge despite an electronic collar that was meant to keep him in and was eyebrows deep in the outside compost bin when we found him🤢.

We used to have hares but not seen them in quite a while. Now snowed under with rabbits When we moved in one of our builders said he saw a goshawks. But I never saw it so who knows

I don't think parakeets are unusual these days. In London there is quite a colony of them (I know it is probably a flock) Anyway, if you look it up, they have overtaken the cockney sparrow

We had a buzzard land by the pond when there was snow on the ground a few years ago. They are quite large close up.

kittylester

Not in the garden but on the road outside our house - a magnificent stag, nonchalantly wandering along.

We live in the middle of a large, busy village.

I met one along our back lane once when I was walking the dog - we just stood and stared at one another for ages before he nonchalantly strolled off.

Did you hear about the footballer’s wife who called the police in the night to report a polar bear in her garden. It turned out to be a neighbour’s very large white pig.?

we had several cows in our front garden a few years ago..the farmer had left the gate open...they called at every house in our street..

Milest0ne

Did you hear about the footballer’s wife who called the police in the night to report a polar bear in her garden. It turned out to be a neighbour’s very large white pig.?

Oh my! Feeling a tad gloomy today but that made me burst out laughing!

Thank you 😊

lots of parakeets in our area Worcs too. not much in our garden just our cat but just behind we daily have badgers foxes deer rabbits and more cats!

Enjoying this thread, what a varied lot of wildlife in your gardens.We only have a tiny front garden and a backyard, which I keep pots in, so nothing much to see other than a few pigeons and sparrows.
I particularly like the comment about finding a large friendly 🐷😁

Foxes deer badgers squirrels owls and a woodpecker have all been in our garden in the last year

We have had a buzzard, a heron and woodpeckers and nut hatches. I spend far too much money feeding the birds and far too much time watching them.

Three back packers. The campsite is closed. Directed them to a local spot having given them a cup of coffee and filled their water bottles while DH chatted to them. Asked them back for breakfast. Same age as our own DC.

I have a fox which visits most evenings..

Feelingmyage55

Three back packers. The campsite is closed. Directed them to a local spot having given them a cup of coffee and filled their water bottles while DH chatted to them. Asked them back for breakfast. Same age as our own DC.

3 back packers 🤣