Andrew wrote:
On 17/08/2018 15:35, F wrote:
On 17/08/2018 14:56, Andrew wrote:
On at least 3 occasions now I have heard a scraping
scrabbling noise coming from the corner of the house
where the internal foul stack is.

It sounds like a bird or animal with claws

A rat?


The previous time I heard this noise it had made it up to the
'horizontal' section connecting loo to stack so I flushed it
away.

He's a good swimmer if its the same one.


They are brilliant swimmers.

I was waiting for one in the garden to give it a lead injection but it
spotted me and diverted from the normal trail I was covering and leapt
into the pond and swam to the other side under the water
where I saw it emerge and get away. Took seconds.
They may be a nuisance and a health hazard but there is no denying they
have evolved into very efficient biological specimens.


GH