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From the Bristol Post (https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/chickens-montpelier-railway-train-station-3864605)


From The BBC (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-leeds-48723942/felix-the-huddersfield-station-cat-gets-own-apprentice)


Any others you know of?  Cheetahs at Chessington South?  Seals at Kyle of Lochalsh?

When I took my daughter to Mallaig last June, she was fascinated by the number of Gulls nesting between the tracks of the sidings - several sitting on eggs and others actually with youngsters. I guess that - with Mallaig being a fishing port - this is hardly surprising.

Probably swans at Gloucester, Worcester, Chepstow and other stations close to the Wye and Severn just at the moment.

Apparently they want to catch a train to Henbury, but thanks to the sustainable transport budget being chicken-feed they'll be waiting till the cows come home.

We don't have any farmstock being kept at Oldfield Park, though the embankment garden could be an ideal place for chickens to be left on the run (thinks, there's an idea...).

However, I am always amazed at how many apples are left to rot there, when so many passengers stand right by the trees and then, no doubt, go to buy their apples somewhere in town.

Dolphins just east of Slough.

Unfortunately, it seems that Percy the Okehampton Station cat has been found alternative accommodation during the recent uncertainty at the Dartmoor Railway.
I did see a snail at Redland Station recently though!

I did see a snail at Redland Station recently though!


Are you sure it wasn't a Turbo in disguise ?

The people probably think that apples from trees are unhygienic, due to the proximity of birds and insects. Proper apples come in plastic packs from Tesco.

Undoubtedly, but I suspect most just don't see them at all, despite them being piled up right on the platform edge, as they are too busy staring at their phones.

Quite often see Badgers at Sea Mills !..

In our part of the world, there are rookeries alongside platform 4 at Tilehurst and platform 1 at Goring & Streatley.

My bird list from the train over the years includes both Peregines and Curlew flying alongside trains coming into Reading, Little Egrets feeding in the Blackwater near Sandhurst and Barn Owl near Gatehampton Bridge.

Reading used to have Starlings before it was rebuilt, that often fed between the tracks on the old platforms 4A and B. Guildford also still has them. They seem to breed in the roof of Ranger House next to Platform 2. However I have seen the slightly gruesome sight of crows picking off the young just after they have left the nest on the platform.

I have also seen Peregrines at both Guildford and Reading Stations. They don't seem to have had any effect on the pigeon problem at the latter where some aspects of the new roof design seem to encourage pigeons to nest.

Plenty to see if you keep your eyes open (and off your screen !)

Apparently there's a unicorn burrow at the foot of Temple Meads Station incline, which could easily be turned into a tube station...

Knowing Bristol, it was probably one of these: