Road kill

[Tashyboy]

Took me parents down to Gatwick today, straight down the M1 and onto the M25 carpark. Anyway I mentioned to me old man, we have just passed a dead deer at the side of the central reservation. A few miles later near the M25 interchange another, a few miles later another. Another five or so miles along the road, a fourth deer had been flattened.
Now is the London area renowned for deer? I have seen the mess these can make to cars when two worlds collide.
Anyone smacked one of these lately.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Quite a load around, especially on the Surrey stretch where there is still a lot of woodland just off the motorway.

 

[Old Skier]

Getting to be a big problem at times in N Devon/Somerset. You don't want to run into one in the dark. Mate had one land on the bonnet of his motor as it leaped over a roadside hedge. Big mess of car and venison all round.

 

[Hobbit]

See them almost every day up here north of Aberdeen. Mrs Hobbit has had to take avoiding action but I've been lucky so far.

 

[patricks148]

The main thing i see dead by the road on my way to play golf at Nairn.... Badgers.

occasionally a Red Squirrel and Pine Marten.

 

[Piece]

A few deer but mostly foxes and pheasants.

 

[Doon frae Troon]

The deer come into our village on a regular basis.

Always makes me smile when I see them grazing a few feet from the traffic on the banks of the M77, just a couple of miles from the centre of Glasgow.

Like Patricks we see a lot of dead badgers and pheasants. Very few foxes.

 

[Jensen]

Here's a bit of local knowledge Tashboy me old son. Despite being called London Gatwick - London it ain't, it is in fact in Sussex. In fact I think it's in East Sussex, hence the deer and no pigeons.

 

[SaintHacker]

I was unfortunate enough to be there as well today Tashy. Apparently its been voted as the 5th worst airport in the world or something similar. Not surprising, the flight landed 30 mins late and then stood round on the ground for another 30 waiting for a stand!:angry:

 

[Break90]

A few years ago I was driving on the A1307 through the Suffolk countryside on the way home, late at night so pitch dark, when the car in front clipped a deer that I think must have jumped the hedge.

Was doing about 50mph, and remember seeing the deer through the drivers side window doing virtually perfect cartwheels in the other lane for about 100 yards.

Lots of roadkill along that stretch of road, foxes, badgers, pheasants, deers, and normally a couple of souped up boy racers in the ditch every month or so.......

 

[CliveW]

May - June is the peak time of year when there are more deer on the road than any other apart from October - November which is the rutting season. The May - June peak is due to the young deer dispersing from the breeding areas.

 

[Slab]

Took me parents down to Gatwick today, straight down the M1 and onto the M25 carpark. Anyway I mentioned to me old man, we have just passed a dead deer at the side of the central reservation. A few miles later near the M25 interchange another, a few miles later another. Another five or so miles along the road, a fourth deer had been flattened.
Now is the London area renowned for deer? I have seen the mess these can make to cars when two worlds collide.
Anyone smacked one of these lately.

I'd heard they had a new workforce taking over maintenance jobs the M25 this summer but it had to be shelved cos it was just two deer!

 

[Deleted member 18645]

Driving back from Hillside, I hit a dog that was running all over the motorway. Stopped on the hard shoulder to check for damage and no sign of the dog. Pulled into the next services and told these two coppers what had happened. "This is Liverpool mate, that will be on someone's dinner table by now". I was still laughing 200 miles later when I got home.

 

[Imurg]

Massive amount of roadkill on Bucks roads.
I've seen Badger, deer and foxes in the middle of town. Everything else too.
Not seen a mashed Red Kite yet - they do spend a fair bit of time picking at corpses...

 

[Tashyboy]

I was unfortunate enough to be there as well today Tashy. Apparently its been voted as the 5th worst airport in the world or something similar. Not surprising, the flight landed 30 mins late and then stood round on the ground for another 30 waiting for a stand!:angry:

drove back through Dartford tunnel due to the massive carpark goin clockwise. Got home over three hours later and I was stood in Halfords as a wiper had broke in the middle of a lightning storm two miles from Gatwick. mobile rings and its me Mam. "A bloody hours delay, just got on the plane, they have not even loaded the suitcases". 760 mile round trip and same again in two weeks 😠

Slab your a bad man.

 

[DCB]

I live in a rural village just a few miles out of Edinburgh. Plenty of wildlife on the go all year round. What never ceases to amaze me is that people still drive far too fast on the rural roads and then moan when they end up with redesigned front end when they hit a deer or a fully grown badger.

 

[Bunkermagnet]

Was in Boa Vista in the Cape Verde islands a couple of weeks back, the road kill there was a donkey

 

[Imurg]

Not seen a mashed Red Kite yet - they do spend a fair bit of time picking at corpses...

Scratch that. Saw one on the A41 this morning..😥

 

[Slab]

Dogs (a lot), cats, the odd chicken (turns out it didn't get to the other side) Some tubular rodent thing and the occasional bat. Those are the most common

 

[arnieboy]

Sorry, Gatwick is in West Sussex, we don't have things like airports or motorways in the Eastern half!!