http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Today's rubbish wildlife en Thu, 21 May 2026 05:49:18 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11650&page=2#post-369308 Tue, 18 Jul 2023 16:45:38 +0000 Wout Van Aerthur Seat 369308@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Saw a big dead badger up near Gladhouse on my Saturday cycle. It was massive!! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11650#post-369307 Tue, 18 Jul 2023 15:12:31 +0000 jdanielp 369307@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>A wild Big John appears. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11650#post-369305 Tue, 18 Jul 2023 10:04:08 +0000 gembo 369305@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Big John on towpath today without Holdall. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11650#post-369304 Tue, 18 Jul 2023 09:21:07 +0000 jdanielp 369304@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>This is true. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11650#post-369302 Tue, 18 Jul 2023 07:09:24 +0000 gembo 369302@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>That’s not rubbish it is just wild. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11650#post-369300 Mon, 17 Jul 2023 22:21:33 +0000 jdanielp 369300@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The swans were on the canal towpath as I cycled home from work today. Even though I hail them regularly as I pass by, most recently this morning, one of the adults felt the need to stand up and attempt to intimidate me as I approached... I was intimidated, but I avoided being pecked. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11650#post-367666 Fri, 21 Apr 2023 13:24:25 +0000 ejstubbs 367666@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Badgers are reputed to predate hedgehogs, though I believe it's fairly uncommon behaviour rather than being a regular part of their normal day-to-day diet. Which didn't stop the pro-culling fraternity from using it in their anti-badger propaganda.</p> <p>I think you'd know about it if there were badgers visiting your garden at all regularly, though. In the case of your ex-hedgehog I'd be rather inclined to suspect a naturally deceased individual - possibly one which was unable to forage sufficiently widely post-hibernation due to your neighbours' hedgehog-unfriendly boundaries? - which has been scavenged by various different parties over time, with the last inedible remnants discarded on your lawn.</p> <p>(I once found a dead hedgehog in our garden which was being pecked at by magpies. I don't think it was the magpies that did for it, though. Softy that I am, I shooed the birds away and gave the hog a decent burial at the back of the border.) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11650#post-367665 Fri, 21 Apr 2023 13:06:59 +0000 gembo 367665@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Salmagundi? Which I now see is not the name for hedgehog baked in clay </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11650#post-367657 Fri, 21 Apr 2023 08:42:08 +0000 Arellcat 367657@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>A couple of morning ago I opened the curtains and saw on the lawn what looked like the end of someone's wooden broom. I was delighted to realise it was a hedgehog, as I've only seen one in the garden* twice in about five years.</p> <p>I was less delighted to realise on closer inspection that it was an ex-hedgehog, on account of it missing <em>everything</em> that wasn't skin and prickles. When I moved it into the undergrowth I noticed the long grass was quite grabby with the prickles and I wondered if hedgehogs ever get stuck? Seems unlikely, given that nature has been perfecting them for millenia.</p> <p>Fox? Badger maybe? What else eats a hedgehog?</p> <p>* Everyone round here has wooden fences with horizontal slats that go down the ground. Very few privet hedges. It's almost as though people don't want animals trotting to and fro between gardens. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11650#post-258332 Fri, 25 Aug 2017 17:36:00 +0000 minus six 258332@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>you've got to applaud that woodpigeon</p> <p>not for him, festering in an end of life care home</p> <p>no, sir. he went out with a bang</p> <p>chapeau </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11650#post-258331 Fri, 25 Aug 2017 17:18:09 +0000 I were right about that saddle 258331@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Bicycling down Melville Street and a slightly care-worn woodpigeon flew past me heading the other way about a foot off the deck. Didn't look right at all.</p> <p>Flew straight into the radiator grille of the Audi A4 behind me with a sickening bang. Game over. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11650#post-135628 Wed, 04 Dec 2013 17:34:52 +0000 shuggiet 135628@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>yes. pretty close to what I told him, though he embellished it somewhat. I had worried he'd put a 'cyclist' spin on it, but he managed to avoid that. Good that he followed up with SNH and FoH. I didn't realise Lesley was protector of otters as well as traffic flow.. :-) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11650#post-135625 Wed, 04 Dec 2013 17:15:30 +0000 chdot 135625@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Basically a good article though. </p> <p>It's always worth checking CCE for up to date news... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11650#post-135624 Wed, 04 Dec 2013 16:56:32 +0000 cb 135624@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Terrible news about the otter. Idiotic commenting on that article already:</p> <p><em>"Why suddenly now?</p> <p>The road has been there for many, many years....<br /> The pond longer....</p> <p>Why now?"</em></p> <p>Actually, that one was almost amusing, but then in answer, "Rv" says:</p> <p><em>"Because they will use any excuse to make the roads slower and less efficient. Any excuse to slow down an important road."</em></p> <p>So, let me get this straight. 'They' are releasing otters onto the road in the hope that they'll be run over and hence seeding the perfect excuse to lower the speed limit.</p> <p>BTW, shuggiet, spotted you cycling down Cluny Gdns the other day. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11650#post-135621 Wed, 04 Dec 2013 16:28:44 +0000 shuggiet 135621@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://t.co/Zbl7V7Fpg2">Otter Kill</a> in the Evening News today..</p> <p>Interestingly the reporter had found the story by looking at CCE.. </p> <p>Journalistic Correction - I'm not collecting Otter carcasses in the garden! Buried in the Pond environs.. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11650#post-135448 Tue, 03 Dec 2013 19:24:59 +0000 Charterhall 135448@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Awful. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11650#post-135416 Tue, 03 Dec 2013 16:11:57 +0000 Roibeard 135416@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Cluny Gardens is unpleasant for child cyclists too - I've had a driver coming towards me stop, advise me that we were holding up traffic, completely oblivious to the fact that they were now the only reason overtaking couldn't safely take place...</p> <p>Robert </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11650#post-135412 Tue, 03 Dec 2013 16:02:09 +0000 Focus 135412@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Speed Kills, despite what some motorists would claim to the contrary :-( </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11650#post-135396 Tue, 03 Dec 2013 14:42:43 +0000 Arellcat 135396@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Shuggie, that's extra-awful. :-) I passed a largeish brown carcass near the duck pond yesterday while riding home from town, and had assumed it was someone's cat that had been killed. I didn't look too carefully at it because I hate to see anything killed by infernal combustion. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11650#post-135377 Tue, 03 Dec 2013 13:50:52 +0000 PS 135377@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>wide open straight-ish road</em></p> <p>And a cross-town rat run, which seems to trigger some sort of "make good time" urge in the unthinking/hard-of-thinking/pure selfish driver's mind. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11650#post-135346 Tue, 03 Dec 2013 11:34:45 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 135346@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>It wouldn't be so bad if people stuck to the speed limit there, but wide open straight-ish road = 40mph. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11650#post-135342 Tue, 03 Dec 2013 11:06:41 +0000 minus six 135342@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>deeply depressing. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11650#post-135339 Tue, 03 Dec 2013 11:02:09 +0000 shuggiet 135339@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>yes, third otter killed in 2 years on the road that I've seen.. Add in the toads squashed when they do their migration and the occasional fox, and Cluny Gardens is a real wildlife culling machine... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11650#post-135334 Tue, 03 Dec 2013 10:52:28 +0000 Min 135334@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>:'-( </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11650#post-135333 Tue, 03 Dec 2013 10:51:17 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 135333@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>:( That's awful! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11650#post-135332 Tue, 03 Dec 2013 10:50:31 +0000 shuggiet 135332@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Not rubbish wildlife, but definitely not a wildlife highlight, so added to this thread.</p> <p>Otter family slaughtered on Cluny Gardens yesterday outside Blackford Pond by speeding motorists.. Mother and baby otter carcasses still lying in the road today...</p> <p>Other countries would put speed restrictions, traffic impairment and signage outside their special nature reserves.. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11650#post-133193 Mon, 18 Nov 2013 22:44:24 +0000 kaputnik 133193@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUtRDGi8o9I" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUtRDGi8o9I</a></p> <p>P.S. if your kids are watching, there's a muffled "'kin 'ell" in there, but it's rather indistinct. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11650#post-133049 Mon, 18 Nov 2013 11:45:37 +0000 ARobComp 133049@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>DO NOT GOOGLE IMAGE SEARCH "LUMINOUS NUTS"</p> <p>Pass the mind bleach. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11650#post-133047 Mon, 18 Nov 2013 11:40:58 +0000 Roibeard 133047@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The problem is that these guys have no regard for their own safety. He should have been wearing or carrying something bright, or better yet been lit.</p> <p>Why isn't Tufty still on the go, to teach some crossing skills?</p> <p>Robert </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11650#post-133039 Mon, 18 Nov 2013 11:13:31 +0000 twq 133039@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I've seen some grisly photos of squirrels wrapped around front forks, glad it was avoided. I'm sure the squirrel went back to his mates and had a "bloody cyclists" rant. "They don't even pay forest tax" </p>