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Mrs. Bonce

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Would a bird of prey enjoy caravan holidays I wonder? I think they are long lived. We have red kites around here, perhaps we should tame one.

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We had a mole under the groundsheet once, felt it crawling by in it’s tunnel. Then as we watched in the doorway it popped out under the car.

Once in the inky blackness of the tent in the south of France, I felt a ‘presence’. Ignored it til morning then woke up with a huge cricket on my pillow. Kept the bedroom zipped up ever since.

And OH once woke from a boozy night with the lads, to a cat snuggled up to his head

bridgeywidge

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These have made me laugh... and reminisce. Pony from New Forest liked the look of our cutlery container as it was yellow and cylindrical and to a pony, looked like a corn cob. I retreated to the car!

Emerging 'cigalles' in France clung blindly to the tent mud flap as they found their wings, whilst many more met an untimely end crawling out of the soil after 7 years only to meet an impenetrable groundsheet barrier.

Would gladly have taken pot shots at the wood pigeons in Sandringham C&CC site a couple of years ago. They're not small and not quiet especially when finding a mate!

...And the hedgehog Dad said he'd seen in the tent... was a rat.

Apart from that, as has been said, seeing wildlife is a privilege and fascintating way of passing time on camp.

BUT, I love the idea of a seagull deterrent... a spoof bird of prey to fix on your canopy or dining table to frighten them off. If a Waspinator does it for wasps (or so it is supposed to do), why not a Seacull???

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We were visiting London and the new garden on the top of Canary Wharfe station. The seagulls were making a din on the windowsills of the HSBC building across the way. Then we bumped into a man carrying a Harris hawk, he said the seagulls had spotted her. He brought her there every other day or so and let her have a fly round to shift them, she was allowed to catch just 1 as a treat.

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Dear all,

thank you for your messages on this portal. I will take all this information and on board and see what i can do in fixing some of the problems mentioned above.

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Freddie Williams

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