Pup Come Across Some Strange Cat On The Beach

[flipbull 1,139]

 

What the feck are they all about,,,,there's some wired modern art in this country,,,nearly as bad as that angel of the north in Geordie land,,,,great big rusty monstrosity ....

Before i went down to look at them, i thought those statues were a load of 'ol shite.

 

So i picked a real early summer morning and went down there, gotta say there was sommat about em i really liked. We, as a family go quite regular now and i really appreciate the statues and see them for what they are in the place they are in...

 

So don't be a philistine Tomo and get over here for a look... I'll put the kettle on.

 

Got to agree mate my thoughts where the same. Imagine you stumbled on the place in the dark had a kip and woke up 1st light and and seen them.

[flipbull 1,139]

 

 

What the feck are they all about,,,,there's some wired modern art in this country,,,nearly as bad as that angel of the north in Geordie land,,,,great big rusty monstrosity ....

Before i went down to look at them, i thought those statues were a load of 'ol shite.

So i picked a real early summer morning and went down there, gotta say there was sommat about em i really liked. We, as a family go quite regular now and i really appreciate the statues and see them for what they are in the place they are in...

So don't be a philistine Tomo and get over here for a look... I'll put the kettle on.

f----d it right up for the jetski's though! Atb AT

 

Pain in the arse anyway when fishing lol

[snappeer 464]

 

No rabbits left on Formby anyway, between desiese and the 'improvement' (sterilisation!) of the land, where you once could take fifty, you'd be lucky to get five.

Nice pics Flipbull.

 

I walked miles of those Formby sand dunes, found the odd one to mess about with? Is there the odd hare in edge the dunes there too I thught i saw some sign of them.

10 minute walk from the dunes and youre on big fields if ye know were ye goin

[Tozer 385]

The Waterloo cup wasn't far from there, I have been stopping in Wigan for 9 years on and off, and have only just realised how close it is to the bloody sea

[Tozer 385]

Gnipper/ Tozer, the Formby dunes were decimated by RVHD. Mixi has always been about but never really made any difference to numbers. I remember about 25 years ago over on Cabin Hill, near the rifle range, the rangers (propper back then!) were shooting a couple of hundred a night (as well as us lamping it!) for a couple of weeks and gave up, telling me that they felt like they hardly made a dent in the population!

Then boom, almost overnight they vanished, never to recover and those exciting nights with big numbers were gone...!

Same with the small pockets all round here, all are on a constant decline, even in places they cant be hunted... Ain't mixi, thats been here since the 50's.

My bet is that RVHD was put deliberatley on those dunes, by the new crop of rangers and it happened just as the Formby dunes were 'sterilised' for a public invasion. Cleaned up, new pathways, plantations and wire fencing. They think they made it better but it's a wildlife desert now..!!!

 

Ok it might get battered on here, but I was an air rifle nut as a teenager my way,I took a few bags of 50 autumn rabbits a few places, picking it all up again and taking a wander, none of the old places hold them, I have found a few new ones, and a farm that only ever held the odd one seems to have a smattering over a long distance now. But yes, large areas have just vanished since 2004.

[flipbull 1,139]

Seen plent of fox up there, even taking rabbits whilst I have been on fields with the pup.

[dodger 2,765]

Nice pup looks well..