Whats your most unusual British Sighting?

[tufftie]

Was sitting munching chips with a friend by Pevensey pond when we saw a cob swan attack a car - full on. then he continued attacking the wing mirror - walking away preening himself and then repeating the whole thing again and again!!! We went round for a closer look and he was looking in the wing mirror and then attacking it - he was very proud and full of himself - which made him look even more silly!!

[dragonfly]

I would say mine is a fish a fully formed but miniture a 3" long pike i have never seen one since and that was 40 years ago

[witham]

perhaps not unusual as such but it is where I saw it, a grey seal that had somehow managed to get into the River Witham through the sluice gates near Boston when they are opened at high tide, and was seen up river way inland a few times in different locations before it dissapeared again

[jamie1976]

saw a dder once in a place called honey hill county durham didnt bother it it just went under a rock give me the jitters tho ,and a red squirrel on slayley hall golf course it was running backwards and forwards on the fairway great to see

[gentle giant]

It would have to be lots of HUGE jellyfish all over the beach where we stayed in South Wales. It was a strange sight, thew were like piles of jelly, strange...

[John]

That's reminded me of when I was birding on the Scilly Isles about ten years ago. We caught one of the small inter island boats and I became transfixed with an unusual looking plastic bag which turned out to be a Portugese man o' war.

John

Originally Posted by gentle giant

It would have to be lots of HUGE jellyfish all over the beach where we stayed in South Wales. It was a strange sight, thew were like piles of jelly, strange...

[bounce]

Salmon in the River Mersey as a kid it was the most polluted water known to mankind lol.
About 18 years ago at rhosniegr anglesey we watched a pod of wales not far of shore pass by, as a 15 yearold it was the kind of thing Id seen on the bbc from farflung places.

[Cheryl]

Mines not that unusual I suppose, but I saw a stoat in its winter ermine in the Mosedale Valley near Buttermere one Boxing Day a few years ago - I'd not seen one before and I've not seen one since.

[Purplepixii]

Mine was a hummingbird hawkmoth - I had gone outside one summer's evening for a smoke and couldn't work out what was causing a humming noise, looked at the honeysuckle and saw this "thing" hovering above it. I'd heard of humming birds and doubted that's what it was, so went inside and googled what I'd seen.

That was when I found this site and learned they're not too unusual but it was unusual to me. I owe that hummingbird hawkmoth my thanks - it lead me to this website where I've happily remained ever since

Purplepixii

[Jason Green]

Originally Posted by Purplepixii

...it lead me to this website where I've happily remained ever since

Purplepixii

You've been nowhere else for 8 months?