You'll Never Guess What I Jsut Caught

[Baccus]

I just went out to the car shed to lock it up for the night as as I shut the personal door in the dark I heard something banging around against the roof. Went and got the keys, turned on the lights and after a bit of hunting around I found the poor bird. Not just any bird mind you, but a sacred Kingfisher of all things . I really hope it only ended up in there by accident and not because it had discovered its version of Aladens cave in the form of all my fish tanks. I know one regularly hunts around my pond but the only fish it really has a hope of catching are young goldfish as all my other ones are monsters.

I have put it in a cage inside the house for the night and will let it go tomorrow morning, so what other unexpected critters have people found in and around there tanks?

 

[Binge]

Wasnt around tanks but a buddy of mine caught a ferret in his garage.

 

[Baccus]

Wasnt around tanks but a buddy of mine caught a ferret in his garage.

Cool, would love a ferret but you can't keep them in Queensland, New South Wales yes but not up here.

 

[Carlovel1]

Aww

 

[Vin Swords]

A very large King cobra in the rabbit cage...

As a good Hindu, my mother offer it some milk to wash down his baby rabbit meal and it drank it slowly and gone it's way..

 

[Didge007]

Oh would love a ferret as well, alas stupid QLD laws Would be good to find a vet to classify it as a long-eared guinea pig though...

I owned a Betta a few years back now and he was in an open top tank up against the wall. We get MASSIVE huntsman (sp?) spiders here there size of dinner plates. I don't have a problem with spiders, so one wondered into my room and I figured I'd let him stay provided he didn't get to close to my bed (not that I have a hope in catching those things they are so fast). Anyways he hung around the top of the Betta tank for quite a while and I always wondered whether he was thinking about having him as a meal

 

[Baccus]

A very large King cobra in the rabbit cage...

As a good Hindu, my mother offer it some milk to wash down his baby rabbit meal and it drank it slowly and gone it's way..

Your king cobra experience sounds like my python experience of getting into my avairy and eating my canaries....at least my python wasn't venonous. Unlike the Eastern Brown that got into my avairy with my galahs one time, I wasn't home that day and my Mum ended up shutting my Dad in the aviary with a golf club to kill the snake. It was a huge snake and in a 6x6 aviary it could have got my Dad with alomst any lunge.

 

[Baccus]

Oh would love a ferret as well, alas stupid QLD laws Would be good to find a vet to classify it as a long-eared guinea pig though...

I owned a Betta a few years back now and he was in an open top tank up against the wall. We get MASSIVE huntsman (sp?) spiders here there size of dinner plates. I don't have a problem with spiders, so one wondered into my room and I figured I'd let him stay provided he didn't get to close to my bed (not that I have a hope in catching those things they are so fast). Anyways he hung around the top of the Betta tank for quite a while and I always wondered whether he was thinking about having him as a meal

Maybe not a long eared/ bodied guinea pig but I would be tempted to try a really small munckin cat I really don't see the problem with keeping ferrets in QLD, make people be registered to keep them and only have desexed ones. Just because they stuffed up years ago by letting go Cane toads, they freak out about every other speices of animal. DId you know that in NSW you can also keep native hopping mice....SO unfair, they are native for crying out loud!

 

[Baccus]

Just took some pics of the sacred kingfisher before I let it go. It got a couple of good nips in but I have had a lot worse than what it could dish out.

Enjoy.

And here he looks like a mini kookaburra about to laugh.

 

[Randomitity]

Looks like it doesn't mind you hold it to much

 

[Baccus]

Looks like it doesn't mind you hold it to much

Oh it got a bit miffed but I am used to handling all sorts of wildlife, calm, sure and gentle is the way....until they try to rip your fingers off LOL. If it had been any sort of parrot you can bet you would have been able to see the chew marks .

 

[Randomitity]

Oh it got a bit miffed but I am used to handling all sorts of wildlife, calm, sure and gentle is the way....until they try to rip your fingers off LOL. If it had been any sort of parrot you can bet you would have been able to see the chew marks .

It wouldn't of been chew marks you would be showing us it would be you showing us your reason for being at the hospital as well as where some claws had gotten dug in.

 

[Baccus]

Oh it got a bit miffed but I am used to handling all sorts of wildlife, calm, sure and gentle is the way....until they try to rip your fingers off LOL. If it had been any sort of parrot you can bet you would have been able to see the chew marks .

It wouldn't of been chew marks you would be showing us it would be you showing us your reason for being at the hospital as well as where some claws had gotten dug in.

I end up in hospital more so from mechaical things like lawn mowers! One tried to remove my big toe and just recently I did my shoulder in trying to start one So far I have not injured myself with a chainsaw or weed eater but the scar you can see on my thumb (in the pics) was from a pruning saw that lept out of the branch I was cutting and went for my thumb. Honestly I have more safety around Kangaroo, possoms and birds than tools .

 

[Randomitity]

I end up in hospital more so from mechaical things like lawn mowers! One tried to remove my big toe and just recently I did my shoulder in trying to start one So far I have not injured myself with a chainsaw or weed eater but the scar you can see on my thumb (in the pics) was from a pruning saw that lept out of the branch I was cutting and went for my thumb. Honestly I have more safety around Kangaroo, possoms and birds than tools .

Wow and I thought I had bad luck but like you animals I can hold, chase, find, etc and be fine give me something with a chain or a start up I have a few problems even though all the scares on my body are from falling on skates or playing hockey... rugby and American football hasn't left anything other then welts

 

[CrazyAirborne]

very pretty bird! growing up we had hummingbirds fly into our garage and try to get out the skylight, so Id crawl up in the rafters and grab them in hand and crawl back down. i was always so worried i would crush them in my hand as i was coming back down, they are so tiny! they would be so tired from flying into the skylight for however long, that they wouldnt even be able to fly away, and we would go set them on the hummingbird feeder and let them drink to thier tiny little hearts content and then they would finally fly away. this probably happened 3-5 times when i was young. very cool to hold a tiny little bird like that in ur hands. a wild one at that!