[News] What unusual things have you woken up to in your garden

[Ooh it’s a corner]

We live in rural Ireland and have had birds and bats in the bedroom in the summer but the most destructive was when two horses trotted in through our drive. I saw them quite randomly outside our kitchen window and they proceeded to gallop happily around our back garden until we managed to catch them!

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

I once found a homing pigeon in the back garden. It was obviously someone's pet. Had a tag etc

My dad spent ages working up a series of elaborate traps in order to ensnare it.

I got bored and chucked a washing basket over said pigeon and the job was done.

Dad and I carried him up to the top of a nearby hill and let him go. Certain that the fright, and high altitude would see him on his way back home.

When we returned home, the pigeon was sat on our front wall, waiting for us.

This reminds me of when I found a seagull cowering in front on my house. I wasn’t sure what was up with it but eventually ended up taking it to a bird sanctuary. It turned out it was a baby seagull (it didn’t look like a baby, it was quite big) that was fatigued and dehydrated and lost. The whole episode, from spotting it to calling various organizations to trapping it in a box and then transporting it to a sanctuary that would take it in took an entire afternoon. I was only popping to the newsagent.

 

[Anger]

Wouldn't happen in Brighton. Oh.

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But… it didn’t happen in Brighton, Ohio.

It happened in Brighton.

Ohhhh!!!

 

[Van Cleef]

Bit of a surprise…perhaps substitute unexpected for unusual

Man in Norway wakes to find huge container ship in garden - BBC News

Johan Helberg says he was "quite astonished" to look out of his window and see the vessel.

www.bbc.com

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A couple of tugs should sort it.

 

[Dr Q]

As a student back in the early 90s in Manchester we had a house next to a crossroads on the Kingsway in Burnage. One morning we woke up to a car in the front garden half of it still perched up on the partly destroyed front wall and with the pedestrain barrier wrapped round the front. 5 of us in the house and we never heard a thing!! Even made the local freebie newspaper that week!
Also, same house, the next door neigbours Jack Russell would come through the back garden hedge, sh*t in the garden and then go back home I'm sure it was trained to do that!

 

[Bozza]

I was about to say that I have a surprisingly large cargo ship, but having just looked out the kitchen window, it seems someone has nicked it.

 

[drew]

"You can't park there mate!"

For boats/ships, the phrase is 'you can't moor there mate!'

 

[happypig]

Working a night shift at home one summer. My office was by the front door and about 3AM I heard what sounded like a child screaming outside.
I jumped up and flung the front door open, to be confronted by the sight of a fox about six feet in front of me giving his mrs one.
He had a look of sheer indignance on his face so I apologised, shut the door and left him to it.

 

[Giraffe]

Herd of cows. And literally that was the first thing I woke up to... my better half screaming "There's a herd of cows in the garden!" That was a bit of a surprise.

In related news I went camping once and was woken up by the lady in the tent next door screaming “it’s a horse, a bloody horse”, followed by about an hour of her husband arguing that she was last in so she should have zipped up the tent. The whole camp listened whilst they went for it!

 

[Barham's tash]

I had a squirrel rummaging in my radishes the other morning.

Watch out for their sharp claws.

 

[Gabbafella]

I had a squirrel rummaging in my radishes the other morning.

 

[Meade's Ball]

For one night, not far from Hampstead Heath, I saw in a front garden a demonic figure with arched features and beams of lightningesque evil leaving his palms. He hovered and his torn cloak silently flapped. Okay I was on mushrooms plucked from Hampstead Heath, but I thought it unnecessary for that fiend to dominate the garden for almost 4 hours solid. Rude, really.

 

[Petunia]

An echidna.

A dead possum

 

[Superphil]

Badgers had a go at my newly laid turf , this is what we woke up to.

 

[OzMike]

A dead possum

I spend a lot of time blocking up possum holes in houses.
They get into the roof and sleep there during the day.
They make a big mess and piss everywhere, which stinks and stains the ceilings.
There is a removal service, but it costs about $1200 a time.
I spend a day finding and blocking accesses, I then take one blocking panel off.
The client keeps an eye out for when the possums leave that evening and gives me a call once they are out. I pop back and replace the blocking panel.
They can't get in when they return, throw a tantrum and then go find somewhere else.
More humane than trapping them in cages.

 

[Canfan]

This little girl about 3 years ago.

 

[Blinkers]

I didn’t wake up to it in my garden but it did pay a short visit

 

[Petunia]

I spend a lot of time blocking up possum holes in houses.
They get into the roof and sleep there during the day.
They make a big mess and piss everywhere, which stinks and stains the ceilings.
There is a removal service, but it costs about $1200 a time.
I spend a day finding and blocking accesses, I then take one blocking panel off.
The client keeps an eye out for when the possums leave that evening and gives me a call once they are out. I pop back and replace the blocking panel.
They can't get in when they return, throw a tantrum and then go find somewhere else.
More humane than trapping them in cages.

I’ve been here nearly eight years. I’ve only seen two! The first one was alive. Very cute but I know they can be a pest.

 

[OzMike]

I’ve been here nearly eight years. I’ve only seen two! The first one was alive. Very cute but I know they can be a pest.

I live in the hills, they are everywhere !

 

[Official Old Man]

My parents came home from work and found a herd of cows in their garden. They'd just wrecked everything, including a couple of them were stuck in the (shallow) swimming pool.
As it happens, this week we celebrated in having a badger in our garden. Means they cant build 300 houses out the back of our area.