Was still great but misjudged the wind on the Lang Whang so when I turned at Tarbrax expecting a tail wind It turned out to be a headwind. Just had to pedal all the way back too. Two dead badgers one with entrails being eaten by crows also not good, several dead hedgehogs too.
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I had a not quite so lovely ride today
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Posted 10 years ago #
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Good for the crows. Even Brian May couldn't complain about recycling badgers.
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Yeah but these entrails were really ripe and freshly pulled out. I am not tht squeamish either, when we went to the butchers in my childhood there was blood and sawdust on the floor and halved pigs hanging above us as we waited for our lorne
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We went to a place in Mill St which sold big chunks of meat or Jellistone farm near Coylton. The meat's relatives were still running around outside there.
The nastiest thing I ever found on a cycle was hedgehog entrails stuck on the front mudguard stays. It was already dead when I passed it but I thought I had managed to miss it.
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I'll be cycling down the Langwang next Monday. I hope for a tail wind (NE) on the way down and then a tail wind on the way back up.
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@Dave C, that is quite hopeful
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There was lots of fresh roadkill the morning of the outward leg of the Forres Foray on Saturday. Some of the rabbits looked good enough to pop in the pot. Bright red entrails of badgers, pheasants, hedgehogs, squirrels, a grouse or two.
By the afternoon what was left on the roads was mashed into the tarmac and decidedly greyish brown - not appetising at all.
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I've read that a lack of hedgehogs squished on the road is more alarming than the presence of hedgehogs squished on the roads, as it generally means they have been extirpated in that area.
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I hope you're reporting all these to the Splatter project http://projectsplatter.wordpress.com/
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wfb: "The nastiest thing I ever found on a cycle was hedgehog entrails stuck on the front mudguard stays."
I've had a live rabbit caught between the front wheel and the mudguard.
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Claudia Massie does nice paintings of roadkill.
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Yes they are very nice, unlike the badgers
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This didn't show up on Amazon UK. I've got an earlier edition sent by a friend in the US.
http://www.amazon.com/Flattened-Fauna-Revised-Animals-Highways/dp/1580087558
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