Dark animals in my field this afternoon

Wed 27 Jan 2021, 16:00

Definitely rabbits as I have just seen 2 near the footprints.

Tue 26 Jan 2021, 19:00

If they were seen last night, my bet would be that they were wayward haggises.

Tue 26 Jan 2021, 18:59

Paws for thought for a subordinate claws 

Mon 25 Jan 2021, 23:19

Not the deer for sure, they don't have paws.....🐅🦒🐪?

Mon 25 Jan 2021, 19:17

Please do not confuse dark animals of 10 days ago with the footprints in the snow from last night.

Mon 25 Jan 2021, 15:35 (last edited on Mon 25 Jan 2021, 16:07)

Richard missed giving the "no ordinary rabbit" link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgj3nZWtOfA

Did make me laugh! 

Mon 25 Jan 2021, 15:23 (last edited on Mon 25 Jan 2021, 15:24)

Is it that puma again?!

Or the hound of the Baskervilles?

Mon 25 Jan 2021, 14:43

That's no ordinary rabbit…

Mon 25 Jan 2021, 14:17

Looks like a were-rabbit to me

Mon 25 Jan 2021, 13:55

Tasmanian devil? Velociraptor? They do look like rabbit prints to me though - Lockdown boredom is sending my imagination into overdrive!

Mon 25 Jan 2021, 12:23

Look like small bear prints to me 

Mon 25 Jan 2021, 10:37 (last edited on Mon 25 Jan 2021, 12:20)

Jean, on the footprints image that you posted under adverts, asking for help: I think they are rabbits' footprints. You don't give a size, but that's what they look like.

"Rabbit footprints are strange because of the way they move about. They have two footprints side by side at the front, one in the middle, and one at the back."

If not, then something else that hops.

Mon 25 Jan 2021, 10:31

Almost certainly bunny.  Possibly hare.  Just another crittur sizing up your plants for lunch, Jean.

Sat 23 Jan 2021, 18:43

Does anyone have an automatic camera that could be set up in the tree? I have been watching too many wildlife programmes.

Sat 23 Jan 2021, 18:25

They could be wild boar. Wild boar were breeding near Freeland in 2018. Or perhaps wallabies. Also lots seen wild in Oxfordshire (apparently).

Or beavers (very unlikely). Or badgers (most probably). But male badgers are also called boars, not dogs ...

Sat 23 Jan 2021, 18:02

They heard about your geraniums, Jean. 😉 It would be great to see a  bear though, wouldn’t it!

Sat 23 Jan 2021, 17:34

At 5pm today there was one dark animal in the same place we viewed yesterday. It is quite large. By the time I grabbed a camera it was too dark and I was too far away.

Fri 22 Jan 2021, 17:50 (last edited on Mon 25 Jan 2021, 12:26)

Bears?  They were smallish but chunky. As it was getting dark I was not able to photograph them .They looked like small bears. Two of us used glasses with no result. Has anyone else seen them? As there are badgers in the adjoining field, one suggestion was the animal is Dog Badger.  I am unable to find a picture of this animal.