Eeeeeekk...

We went for a walk in Sydenham Woods yesterday and it was lovely, as it often is this time of the year

There were the customary "Hello & how are you" and "Lovely day" exchanges. All very civilised it was.

However, we then met a man who asked my boys "Have you seen any Rats yet"

"RATS...where ?" Their faces all lit up

After a brief exchange we set off, eyes peeled. And blimey, there's a fair few up there. In the space of 40 minutes we saw half a dozen or so. Apparently the Fox population, which was previously quite high, has fallen and with it the Rats have grown in numbers

We mainly saw them around the high path, near the Dulwich Wood Crescent gate.

It was all a bit creepy (but my boys loved it)

Any other "wildlife" sightings up there ?


Netts

I saw the rats the other day - competely freaked me out. I'm not going back in unless I'm wearing wellies as I have a weird fear of them climbing up my trousers!

seen rats in peckham rye park and dulwich park........london is crawling with them, always has been

i quite like the little blighters

There's tons in sainsburys park too

Probably the endangered brown/black water vole trying to make a comeback. They should be fed and encouraged.

Nope, sadly not

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the endangered brown/black water vole

I grew up shooting rats-a-plenty as a kid (we had ducks & chickens)

And they are definitely Rattus Norvegicus in Sydenham Woods

Eeeekkk..


Netts

ratty Wrote:
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> There's tons in sainsburys park too

Is that still going on? If so i'll email Sainsburys, they seemed quite helpful last year or whenever it was that there were lots of sightings.

I have no idea why I seem to find it sort of acceptable for rats to be in Peckham Rye and Dulwich Park but not the Sainsburys mini park thing!

Maybe because there is water in Peckham Rye and Dulwich Parks it seems more acceptable and natural. I have seen a few swimming in the streams.

sophiesofa, leave the rats alone - tie some string around your trousers if you've got a problem with them and stop being such a human bully

Seen a rat once around here - last summer - never seen one again. I figured the foxes were doing a good job.

I seem to recall one of the old posters had an anecdote about seeing a ninja in those woods once!

El Pibe, are you channelling TMNT? The old rat ninja teacher?

I love Sydenham Woods, happy to share them with a rat or two (thousand).

Rats? Pah. it's wolves with crossbows you wanna be worried about

every word of it true

StraferJack Wrote:
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> every word of it true

Ooooo even spookier SJ

Read the last post on your link

Any name seem familiar?

Netts

Ooooh I say. Good spot ms curtain

StraferJack Wrote:
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> Ooooh I say. Good spot ms curtain


*bows modestly*

Not sure about rats but I have seen a fair few mooses in Sydenham. Mainly on a Friday night round about chucking out time.

Nice to see all the old familiar names posting on that link. I can never keep track of who renamed themselves and carried on and who disappeared for good. Is Keef still posting?

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mikeb Wrote:
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> Nice to see all the old familiar names posting on
> that link. I can never keep track of who renamed
> themselves and carried on and who disappeared for
> good. Is Keef still posting?


He's not I'm afraid. He didn't know about it, but your username expires when you get to 10,000 posts and he is no more I'm afraid. Never liked him anyway.

;)

I haven't seen the rats in Sainsburys park for a while now, it did get to the point last year I'd see them running through the bushes while walking up the footpath every time I'd visit.

@mMicMac - thanks, as you can see though I am a longtime resident of edf, I am some way off the 10,000 posts. I hope you make good use of your remaining 1,004 posts before you too disappear into the firmament.

I saw the ninja too

My OH swore he saw a dormouse on a collapsed wisteria in someone's front garden up round that way. Having seen and held one myself, his description did fit and he knows what a rat looks like so although I was initially disbelieving, I concluded that chances were it was a dormouse.