Wildlife mystery?? I want to know about it!

[benanderson]

Dear all

i want to hear about your wildlife mysteries!

Confusing behaviour? Un-answerable evidence? Strange happenings?

The famous stories of open milk bottles, opened by blue tits etc etc

i would love to know what the 'wild about britain' bloggers have found/seen/ or not seen, that they would like answered!!

Thanks so much. It may seem a bit random, but its just something in its early stages

yours

benanderson

[Simples]

Originally Posted by benanderson

The famous stories of open milk bottles, opened by blue tits etc etc

I can only assume you are a youngster, and have never had full-fat milk delivered in bottles! Of course blue tits used to peck holes in bottle tops to get at the cream - it's hardly 'unusual' behaviour, except maybe in a modern world where people don't drink proper milk or get it delivered in bottles.

[Farplace]

Blue tits ALWAYS did this.... I believe it was a learned behaviour, which spread from flock to flock.
BUT..... a wildlife mystery I want to know about is "Stoat Funerals". I have heard a couple of examples of this... a procession of stoats (generally in twos) carrying the dead body of another stoat. Anyone witnessed this?

[brendaward]

Do you mean stories like my old dog in our old farmhouse. The dog would regularly growl and attack something in the middle of the living room that we could not see. Her eyes would go black with fear/anger and she would leap at nothingness.

[Farplace]

The dog's reaction was normal - dogs can sense things that we can't sense.

[brendaward]

Now that reply scares me. Was there something there? My daughter was always seeing things there when she was small was the dog protecting her. It is a bit creepy!

[benanderson]

thanks for the slightly patronsing age comment! ha!

but yeah those are the kind of stories im looking for, blue tits and milk bottles; foxes stealing golf balls; mysterious garden holes etc etc

any help hugely appreciated!!

[bigdave60dog]

Originally Posted by Farplace

Blue tits ALWAYS did this.... I believe it was a learned behaviour, which spread from flock to flock.
BUT..... a wildlife mystery I want to know about is "Stoat Funerals". I have heard a couple of examples of this... a procession of stoats (generally in twos) carrying the dead body of another stoat. Anyone witnessed this?

Great Tits as well.
When I was a school "Milk Monitor"and the milk used to freeze so that the tops were pushed up by a frozen pillar of milk.
If I can just work out how to put photos on this site We have annual, mystery visitors who leave footprints to our beach with the Summer New Moon.
We have private beach that comes with the house. No-one else would be there to leave footprints.
I first noticed them after I had dream about Sea Monster. How bizarre.
Dave.

[The Woodman]

The mystery of the village post box and why all the stamps were left at the bottom of the box when the letters were removed.

A diligent bit of detective work revealed that snails were doing it - presumably garzing on the glue.

Guess you wanted to work that one out benanderson!

[Cowgirl]

Originally Posted by bigdave60dog

We have private beach that comes with the house. No-one else would be there to leave footprints.
I first noticed them after I had dream about Sea Monster. How bizarre.
Dave.

Ooo Sielkies (spelling) maybe, found any sealskins lying around??

Originally Posted by Simples

I can only assume you are a youngster, and have never had full-fat milk delivered in bottles! Of course blue tits used to peck holes in bottle tops to get at the cream - it's hardly 'unusual' behaviour, except maybe in a modern world where people don't drink proper milk or get it delivered in bottles.

Our office gets semi-skimmed milk delivered. When we first had it delivered (a couple of years ago) the blue-tits (or other types, never actually saw the little blighters) used to regularly peck open the bottles until we bought a box to put the milk in.
So I don't think age has anything to do with it as it still happens nowadays & I don't think blue-tits can tell the difference between full fat & semi.