CityCyclingEdinburgh was launched on the 27th of October 2009 as "an experiment".
IT’S TRUE!
CCE is 15years old!
Well done to ALL posters
It soon became useful and entertaining. There are regular posters, people who add useful info occasionally and plenty more who drop by to watch. That's fine. If you want to add news/comments it's easy to register and become a member.
RULES No personal insults. No swearing.
Squirrel on Stenhouse Avenue that bolted across the road infront of me and came within a bushy tailwhisker of ending up between the spokes. I only saw it as the tail brushed the front wheel.
I think I shouted "**** off you stupid squirrel". I hope it heard and has learned its lesson.
Wonder if the camera picked it up.
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"
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.
Why isn't Tufty still on the go, to teach some crossing skills?
Robert
DO NOT GOOGLE IMAGE SEARCH "LUMINOUS NUTS"
Pass the mind bleach.
P.S. if your kids are watching, there's a muffled "'kin 'ell" in there, but it's rather indistinct.
Not rubbish wildlife, but definitely not a wildlife highlight, so added to this thread.
Otter family slaughtered on Cluny Gardens yesterday outside Blackford Pond by speeding motorists.. Mother and baby otter carcasses still lying in the road today...
Other countries would put speed restrictions, traffic impairment and signage outside their special nature reserves..
:( That's awful!
:'-(
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...
deeply depressing.
It wouldn't be so bad if people stuck to the speed limit there, but wide open straight-ish road = 40mph.
wide open straight-ish road
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.
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.
Speed Kills, despite what some motorists would claim to the contrary :-(
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...
Robert
Awful.
Otter Kill in the Evening News today..
Interestingly the reporter had found the story by looking at CCE..
Journalistic Correction - I'm not collecting Otter carcasses in the garden! Buried in the Pond environs..
Terrible news about the otter. Idiotic commenting on that article already:
"Why suddenly now?
The road has been there for many, many years....
The pond longer....
Why now?"
Actually, that one was almost amusing, but then in answer, "Rv" says:
"Because they will use any excuse to make the roads slower and less efficient. Any excuse to slow down an important road."
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.
BTW, shuggiet, spotted you cycling down Cluny Gdns the other day.
Basically a good article though.
It's always worth checking CCE for up to date news...
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.. :-)
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.
Flew straight into the radiator grille of the Audi A4 behind me with a sickening bang. Game over.
you've got to applaud that woodpigeon
not for him, festering in an end of life care home
no, sir. he went out with a bang
chapeau
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.
I was less delighted to realise on closer inspection that it was an ex-hedgehog, on account of it missing everything 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.
Fox? Badger maybe? What else eats a hedgehog?
* 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.
Salmagundi? Which I now see is not the name for hedgehog baked in clay
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.
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.
(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.)
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.
That’s not rubbish it is just wild.
This is true.
Big John on towpath today without Holdall.
A wild Big John appears.
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