animal unknown?

[SittingFox]

Originally Posted by Alan

You need to get out more then Jez

You'd be suprised what they can scale! I've seen them half-way up trees!

I saw a fox hopping along on its rear legs once (for a couple of seconds).

As for the tails, well, perhaps I'm usually too busy being fixated by the striped faces to notice! I don't have badgers in my garden and most of the time I see them scuffling across wooded roads, not the best for tail-watching

But I will take care to look for the tail next time I see one.

[catalaze]

I hesitate to mention this, but it couldn't have been a couple of scuttling cats, could it? When very excited, cats do make a clicking, chattering noise. They can run in a crouch and they often have big bushy tails, quite huge if sufficiently aroused. They zip up fences just fine and I can't believe any badger could so easily, even if one did once get up a tree. Badgers just don't have the right feet. I don't think Leicestershire has anything more exciting. Except maybe feral Ferrets. Size can be very deceptive by night. Do Ferrets click? I know nothing about Ferret language. Ferrets might otherwise fit the general description.

[Alan]

Originally Posted by catalaze

Except maybe feral Ferrets. Size can be very deceptive by night. Do Ferrets click? I know nothing about Ferret language. Ferrets might otherwise fit the general description.[/color]

I speak the language so I'll ask one next time

I kept ferrets when I was a teenager. I had 27 at one time! All the weasel family make these clicking/whickering type sounds. I would think it is foxes though! Or Badgers

[Captain Kev]

All that clicking, It's quite obviously Skippy the bush(tailed) Kangaroo

[eeyore]

or jonny bushcrafting in her back garden

[jezlee]

Originally Posted by Alan

You need to get out more then Jez

You'd be suprised what they can scale! I've seen them half-way up trees!

What were you doing half-way up a tree?

[Alan]

Originally Posted by jezlee

What were you doing half-way up a tree?

Why looking for Badgers of course!

.....and I took a wrong turning!

[Bodger]

No chance they were ferrets I'm afraid . They certainly can make the noise that you heard but a 2 ft vertical board is sufficient to keep them contained so a 6 ft fence would be way beyond their capabilities.

[Kev Lewis]

reminds me of the joke:

Why do elephants paint their toenails red?





so they can hide in Cherry trees


i'll get my coat