Shoreham deer
 

Just taken a look at the webcam and there appear to be deer by the PAPI. Have had a couple of bird strikes there but this could be a whole new departure, or arrival

I guess it could have been a passenger with an Antler suitcase . . . . . . . . .

Quite entertaining watching the fire crew trying to evict them!

I've watched deer at both Farnborough and Fairoaks; also lots of foxes.
When I was at Glasgow, there was a large hare which used to sit at the edge of the apron near the tower. It would wait until a Trident taxyed out and run across to the edge of the runway to watch it take off. It did this several times as there were usually 3 Trident services which departed Glasgow between 0800 and 0830 on weekdays.

I was waiting to take-off at Brize once, when a bunch of mounted fox murderers appeared at the other end of the aerodrome pursuing a fox. As they came to the fence, they came rapidly to a halt, no doubt muttering various curses as their hounds were called back.... The fox nipped through the wire, trotted across the tarmac, then looked around before 'assuming the position' and depositing a load of fox-poo before happily going on its way. "That to you, Jorrocks and all your wretched Pink-coated kin", I could imagine it was saying!

Slow day at Eshott...

One evening at Farnborough, a vixen with her 4 cubs decided to walk onto the runway and stopped to allow her cubs a quick 'suck'.
The departing ATP carefully taxyed around her and took off; the vixen appeared unperturbed.

Some years ago I was teaching circuits in a Bulldog at Dundee. An Oystercatcher wandered across the runway, stood on one leg just off the centreline, put its head under a wing and took a snooze. It was so under-impressed by the mighty ‘Dog that it just slept on while we did multiple roller landings with the starboard wing passing right over its head.

BEagle maybe it had seen The Belstone Fox...

SWBKCB sure that isn't Eweshot?

Decades ago I was approaching the Raleigh-Durham Airport RDU in a small plane when I heard the ATIS warn about deer on the runway.

That caught my attention!

I will from now on wait for something similar to Bill Engwall's "Here's Your Sign" sketch on this thread...

From Youtube!
T J

You bet - have you seen the landing fees !

Attention, les moutons!
 

Whilst on final approach to the grass runway at Granville-Mont Saint Michel Airport (LFRF) my instructor said to me "Attention, les moutons!"

The airfield is not wildly active and sheep are allowed to graze the airfield grass, including the runway!

Un gigot d'agneau de pré-salé is delicious!

Doing a touch and go one morning 6 or 7 years ago in a 172 at Denver Centennial there was great big coyote sat on the threshold.

That was my first experience of landing on snow as opposed to the "back to black" principle we use in the UK.

As a young lad working out on the airfield at Heathrow and being very keen, I got out of the Landrover to pick up some FOD on the top of a light fitting. It was the most evil-smalling, sticky yukky stuff I had hereto encountered. My amused more experienced colleague told me that it was fox poo and not really a hazard. It took some while to wash it off. Lesson learned!
On another occasion, we recovered the body of a fox that had been run over. We slung it in the back of the Landrover, again, very whiffy!
We usually 'dispatched' injured foxes as they don't recover well from any kind of injury, becoming gangrenous very quickly. Apparently for this reason, foxes don't generally survive beyond a few years.
The ones that are alive and well can be a right pain to chase away, they just turn around and seem to be mocking us, before trotting away into the darkness. We felt duty bound to attend when ATC said a fox had been reported by an aircraft but so long as it wasn't in the vicinity of the runways, we were content. They might even have had a purpose, getting rid of the rabbits that ate through the lighting cables. How did we know that was happening? When the engineers excavated a cable fault, you'd sometimes see a dead rabbit at the break...
Happy days 40 years ago, Checker and Seagull for those familiar with the callsigns.
TOO

Joining the circuit at Marco Island in Florida the aircraft ahead reported an alligator on the runway. The guy on the radio said they will send someone out to remove it.

CDG in Paris always seemed to have a huge rabbit population , or were they hares ? Always amazed me how many there were sitting around watching the world go by on their little grass islands in the concrete

Sheep may safely graze.
 

Rabbits. Local farmers were contracted ( prob still are) to cull them. And keep the carcasses. Thousands of them. Amazing the place is still standing on top of all those warrens.

My one visit to Rotterdam there were loads of rabbits on the grass areas.
Mind you the terminal served the most delicious coffee I ever tasted.