They're wild in this school!

[bondbill2k2]

Last night I was asked if science could have some software they purchased installed, I agreed as it was only for 4 teacher machines but they were all in use (finishing reports) till my time to leave last night. So first thing this morning I went to install this software, sat at the computer and began booting it when a little robin flew over and landed on the monitor, ive no idea how it got in but I proped the back door open and tryed to get it in that direction which didnt work, it was having way too much fun flying between the projector, board and cabinet.

 

I informed the other staff (the room was also empty till lunch time) that it was in there and the door was left open, all equiptment turned off and it didnt leave the room for almost another 2 hours

[Butuz]

Had a robin stuck in the stair well in ICT dept. It didnt want to go back out and was scaring the pupils so had to catch it and release it. Ninja reflexes and soft hands helped, as it semed quite comfy when I released it outside it flew a meter away and just stood there looking at me!! Strange!!!

 

Also had a squirrel stuck in one of the ICT rooms but didnt try and catch that as they can bite your finger off, so just eventually shoed it down the fire exit!!

 

Nowt like mixing a bit of naturewatch into every day school life!!!! You don't get that kinda interesting daily variation in industry!!!

 

Butuz

[SpuffMonkey]

We get birds (often seagulls) in our atrium - the site manager shoots them with an air rifle

[LosOjos]

We had a baby squirrel once, it was amazingly tame, found by a cleaner as she put her brush under the stair well and pulled it out with the squirrel sat on it! It was quite happy scurrying up to people for a bit of fuss and let you hold it with no problems... we were worried that if it got near any of the kids it might get hurt though so we released it in a nearby field...

[SteveBentley]

@Butuz the kids were scared of a Robin??

[EvLPhenom]

We've had birds fly in and every year we have a duck who lays her eggs in one of our quads. We have to open the doors onto the field and she shepherds the chicks out when they hatch.

 

We also had a small bat get into one of the stair wells once.

[Andrew_C]

We get ducks swimming around on our playing fields. The water levels are rising, so they'll be back soon!

[localzuk]

We've had bats, frogs, birds, cats, dogs and I think a few lizards wandering around the school over the last few years. We mostly just leave them alone, as do the kids. The bat was very cute though.

[john]

We get birds (often seagulls) in our atrium - the site manager shoots them with an air rifle

 

Don't think that would go down too well in many schools, we have had pheasants in a few times in the main corridor

[glennda]

We have a regular visitor to my office (well i think its the same bird same type anyway! plus it knows how to get in our stupid window!) pops in every couple of weeks flys around a bit then goes out after 5/10 mins

 

after the 10/11th time i just tend to ignore it apart from shutting the door so it doesn't fly into the corridor.

[laserblazer]

We have foxes. We have their stinking cr@p everywhere.

[alextreadwell]

At my last school we had badgers living under the mobile block they had a habit of eating the network cables under the floors even through the steel channels. The teachers did seem less annoyed tho when we told them it wasn't the rats.:-)

[witch]

One school locally backs on to the heath and so has deer, squirrels (who caused a fire once chewing through wires), badgers, seagulls and rats.

The school has banned any snack in a packet like crisps (the children can bring them in a plastic box) as the rats and seagulls will pull the packets out of the bins.

My school just has a neighbours cat who is to be found asleep on a chair somewhere around every day!

[SpuffMonkey]

We had a deer with its head stuck in the railings a while back, also a tame very fat squirrel that eats all the fast food that the kids drop everywhere.

[Fatmas]

We get birds (often seagulls) in our atrium - the site manager shoots them with an air rifle

 

Boom! Headshot!

 

MMMMMMMMMONNNNSTER KILL

[bondbill2k2]

MU-MU-MU-MULTIKILL

[Rydra]

Old scout hut had a wierd problem where if you turn on the lights in the wrong order, it tripped the fuse box and all the lights went out.

 

After a little while one of the leaders who's an electrician went up into the loft to take a look around, and found a squirrel attached to the end light, paws still on the outer mesh, and it's mouth still firmly attached to the cable. If you turned on that light first then the others, it was too much current and the squirrel-fuse would short

 

If you fired that one up last it could handle the load somehow.

 

Seems that squirrels have a polarity!

[sonofsanta]

Last school had a really bad pigeon problem, in my last half term break there they got pest control in... who had the most awesome job in the world. 2 blokes with shotguns and Harris Hawks. I feel thoroughly let down by my careers adviser that I was never told such a job existed, where you spend all day playing with birds of prey and firearms.

 

Admittedly they also have to crawl through the roofspace to clean up pigeon poop, but no job's perfect, right?