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SimonRL Joined: 27/11/2005 Location: North Wales View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Wildlife in mines.. Posted: 07/06/2011 12:21:22 Reply \| Quote Have seen an otter, frogs and a few eels - but never fish! Photograph: (click image to open full size image in new window) -- Remember there is nothing to be gained by trying to get away. IP: 95.147.255.147
jagman Joined: 11/03/2007 View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Wildlife in mines.. Posted: 07/06/2011 12:46:16 Reply \| Quote Curiously I have seen eels quite a few times and oddly even a trout in a mine IP: 92.40.253.77
AR Joined: 07/11/2007 Location: Knot far from Knotlow in the middle of the Peak District View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Wildlife in mines.. Posted: 07/06/2011 12:53:14 Reply \| Quote I've seen trout in both Cromford and Magpie soughs, we'll not talk about the dead ducks and seagulls in one branch of the former.... -- I sold my soul to Satan, but he brought it back and demanded a refund.... IP: 194.159.145.70
Cat_Bones Joined: 07/06/2007 Location: Shropshire View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Wildlife in mines.. Posted: 07/06/2011 14:45:47 Reply \| Quote Found a newt deep underground once... wasn't sure whether to rescue it or not, hard to tell how happy or otherwise a newt is! IP: 86.146.60.96
SimonRL Joined: 27/11/2005 Location: North Wales View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Wildlife in mines.. Posted: 07/06/2011 14:48:36 Reply \| Quote Was it very small? Minew... I'll get me coat... -- Remember there is nothing to be gained by trying to get away. IP: 95.147.255.147
RJV Joined: 16/03/2008 Location: Cleveland View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Wildlife in mines.. Posted: 07/06/2011 15:08:18 Reply \| Quote Bri found trout in a lead mine at Grinton - god alone knows how they got up there. I had a bird fly at great speed between my legs a couple weeks ago, again at Grinton. Accidentally stumbled upon this one a while back. Don't suppose I or many other people will be able to much better it. DCRO were asked to go to the help of a six week old calf which had fallen into old mine workings. Local cavers had already been down at the request of the farmer and reported the animal to be alive. A DCRO team of a dozen attended and in an operation lasting nearly four hours they successfully brought the animal to the surface. The calf was either very lucky or very skilful. It jumped an initial 4 metres or so down the mine entrance. Then it ignored the first underground shaft on offer in favour of descending the next (5 metres) - wisely without making use of a rather dangerous iron ladder. Now gaining in confidence it made its way to the top of the next pitch (21 metres) which it descended rapidly and again without using a rope cleverly avoiding terminal velocity with the little used (and rarely successful) ricochet method. One more adrenaline hit descending a final 9 metre pitch and it found a side passage in which to make itself comfortable while it tried to work out how to get back up. It is now believed to be looking for a good caving club. Any offers? http://derbyshirecro.org.uk/call_outs.html -- Rich IP: 82.5.181.65
Cat_Bones Joined: 07/06/2007 Location: Shropshire View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Wildlife in mines.. Posted: 07/06/2011 15:23:11 Reply \| Quote simonrl wrote: Was it very small? Minew... I'll get me coat... Took me a minute to work that out (no pun intended)... waste of a minute I reckon :D IP: 86.146.60.96
Psilocybintheredunit Joined: 03/06/2011 View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Wildlife in mines.. Posted: 07/06/2011 15:39:25 Reply \| Quote what species of newt was it cat? so far ive seen a (presumably soon to die) plant or tree seedling - near the entrance but in complete darkness nonetheless. perhaps it was a nut buried by a squirrel? and also a pair of Ink Cap fungi (Coprinus) IP: 82.46.68.24
RockChick Joined: 12/08/2008 Location: Chester View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Wildlife in mines.. Posted: 07/06/2011 16:56:45 Reply \| Quote I've had a tawny owl fly out of a shaft above our heads and do several circuits of us before heading off down the tunnel- when you're within a foot or so of a rather panicked owl they're really rather intimidating, they've got big talons!! -- I have many faults, but all of them are normal!! IP: 91.195.113.10
Cat_Bones Joined: 07/06/2007 Location: Shropshire View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Wildlife in mines.. Posted: 07/06/2011 17:02:42 Reply \| Quote Psilocybintheredunit wrote: what species of newt was it cat? Your bog-standard Common Newt I believe but I am no expert! IP: 86.146.60.96
lab rat Joined: 21/01/2008 View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Wildlife in mines.. Posted: 07/06/2011 18:24:49 Reply \| Quote Ive seen otters, a fox, fish and fresh water shrimp, the latter two species of which were albino's, oh and meditarianian honets big mamas flying after me as I legged it out of a cave in Crete (and the usual moths and calcified mosi's and flies) IP: 94.3.119.147
Manicminer Joined: 29/04/2007 Location: North Wales View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Wildlife in mines.. Posted: 07/06/2011 19:28:23 Reply \| Quote Otters, rabbits, fish, newts, tadpoles, bats, owl, snake, worms, ants, frogs, mice, ducks, moths, spiders and an albino frog that's been in the one place for years - no idea what he gets to eat though. -- Gold is where you find it IP: 95.147.255.242
viewer Joined: 04/09/2007 Location: New rules mean it's a secret View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Wildlife in mines.. Posted: 07/06/2011 19:53:23 Reply \| Quote frogs in ystrad einon http://www.aditnow.co.uk/photo/Ystrad-Einion-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-62072/ and a bat in a mine -- 'Learning the ropes' IP: 90.222.178.177 Edited: 07/06/2011 19:56:12 by viewer
Buckhill Joined: 08/04/2008 View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Wildlife in mines.. Posted: 07/06/2011 20:59:29 Reply \| Quote Regularly saw bats, mice and a frog or two at Honister. Don't suppose sheep count but they've been seen well inside at times. Once met a fox strolling out of drift at Mainband (Sunday morning)where there were also frogs - but no mice. IP: 217.39.84.50
owd git Joined: 07/02/2010 View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Wildlife in mines.. Posted: 07/06/2011 21:04:47 Reply \| Quote O.K. deepest Frog? To you rockchic O. G. IP: 2.102.14.233
RJV Joined: 16/03/2008 Location: Cleveland View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Wildlife in mines.. Posted: 07/06/2011 21:10:51 Reply \| Quote owd git wrote: O.K. deepest Frog? To you rockchic O. G. Which would be this little fellow: (click image to open full size image in new window) However.... I seem to remember that we found a frog at the bottom of Brewery Shaft (300 and sumfink ft) though I don't have a photo so it probably didn't happen... -- Rich IP: 82.5.181.65 Edited: 07/06/2011 21:11:20 by RJV
christwigg Joined: 20/02/2008 Location: Cleveland / North Yorkshire View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Wildlife in mines.. Posted: 07/06/2011 21:12:33 Reply \| Quote owd git wrote: O.K. deepest Frog? To you rockchic O. G. Found frogs at the bottom of Brewery Shaft. 328ft. IP: 82.5.179.238
RichardLevett Joined: 20/06/2009 Location: Teesdale View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Wildlife in mines.. Posted: 07/06/2011 23:19:54 Reply \| Quote I once saw an otter quite happily living in a Welsh slate mine IP: 91.125.215.62
SimonRL Joined: 27/11/2005 Location: North Wales View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Wildlife in mines.. Posted: 07/06/2011 23:23:50 Reply \| Quote RichardLevett wrote: I once saw an otter quite happily living in a Welsh slate mine Otterly amazing Sorry, had to be done... -- Remember there is nothing to be gained by trying to get away. IP: 95.147.254.254
Peter Burgess Joined: 01/07/2008 Location: Merstham. Or is it Godstone ...... ? View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Wildlife in mines.. Posted: 07/06/2011 23:33:38 Reply \| Quote Godstone Main Series has a resident population of probably millions of earthworms which have been happily digesting and redigesting over and over again the same lot of mushroom compost since the 1930s. Does the taste change after each meal? -- Hé ! Ki kapcsolva le a villanyt ? IP: 92.10.161.20

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