Eagle reported over broughton by person in queue.
Gembo- hope it doesn’t get poisoned
4x4person in queue - no the gamekeepers around here like it
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Wildlife lowlight of the week
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South of Scotland reintroduction project. They'll be shot.
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Yes the whole area owned by Richard Scott. Woman in queue at Broughton in her 4x4 bumped up on pavement engine running. Gembo complete Paddington look. Husband drove away and back on to ther side and switched engine off. Too big a motor to effect a U turn
the broughton Main Street. Mental. Why do people drive such huge vehicles (oh yeah Vinnie Jones sells them for less than 20kPosted 4 years ago # -
Apologies for having to raise this somewhat gruesome topic but: does anyone have any insight into or suggestions for frog euthanasia?
There is a not-at-all-well-looking frog in our pond at the moment: very skinny and kind of lopsided-looking. When it swims it sort of corkscrews along. I suspect something may have tried to predate it and, although it got away, it's not doing well. I don't really want to leave it to die in some hidden crevice in the pond as the decaying cadaver probably wouldn't do the other inhabitants a lot of good.
I can fish it out easily enough but what to do with it then?
I have removed it once before, a couple of weeks back - when to be fair it looked a lot worse. At that time I put it in some long undergrowth at the other end of the garden, surmising that it would be reasonably comfortable there but unlikely to make it back to the pond. But it obviously has - unless this is a second one, which would probably be worse because it could mean that we have an outbreak of some kind of frog pox :(
If it has lasted two or three weeks then perhaps it is able to feed and I should just let it get on with it. (Although I'm aware that cold-blooded creatures can go a lot longer without food then warm-blooded.)
Any helpful suggestions or advice would be much appreciated.
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Elf Loch was apparently doing very well for tadpoles recently, so I expect the local heron knows about it too. I suppose you might capture the frog and move it to its new home for nature to take its course?
Foxes are also fond of frogs, as my parents witnessed last spring when it was carnage in their garden pond.
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@ejstubbs
Leave it be? Nature can be grim, but we're not responsible for that.
The scientific way to kill frogs is to pith them. Stick a needle in the rear base of its skull and stir vigorously. If you're not up for that freeze it or flatten its head with a hammer.
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The local heron certainly knows about the amphibians in the Elf Loch - I watched it catch one on two different occasions early in lockdown.
I gather that the advice is not to move sick-looking frogs to other ponds, in case they are carrying a virus which could spread in to the population at the new place. (Full disclosure: my pond was first populated from a clump of frogspawn that I found in an almost completely dried up stream running through the garden of a cottage we were renting near Keswick. That was in 2005 - I remember it because it was when New Who kicked off. Sad person that I am. But I've seen no signs of disease or mortality until this one instance this year.)
Reading around a bit online it seems that what I did the first time I found it i.e. moved it to some deep undergrowth to either recover or...er, not...is the best you can do. A wood pile would apparently also be a good place for a convalescent amphibians. I might therefore try introducing it to our wood pile - if that's not too posh a term for a heap of cut logs stacked on a rotting pallet to season ready for splitting in the autumn.
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Another two missing tagged Hen Harriers. Really sickening and frustrating that these people respnsible aren't prosecuted.
Colin
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Pigeon, sans head, on a footpath in Moredun this morning. Dogs surprisingly uninterested.
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@Frenchy
Much sparrowhawk action yesterday. This pigeon's head has been assimilated. Quite possible you disturbed her.
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In 2018 we built 2.25 homes per 1,000 people. Germany managed 3.6, the Netherlands 3.8, France 6.8, because time is money, and the newt-counting delays in our system are a massive drag on the productivity and prosperity of this country and so we will build better and build greener but we will also build faster.
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Are the French not bothering with assessing ecological impact?
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tiny dead vole - bank or field I could not say was tummy side up, just at WoL bridge after Glenbrook heading west this a.m.
young as tiny
Apparently there are no Shrews in Ireland? No punchline here, just waiting for a Correction
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A magpie just thieved an egg out of our bay tree pigeons' nest.
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@chdot: The irony being that it was Boris' dad who played a key role in the creation of the EU Habitats Directive which led to the UK legislation that Boris is now seeking to undo.
(Johnson père also campaigned on the remain side during the EU referendum - but changed his mind later, apparently because he didn't like Jean-Claude Juncker. I'm afraid I remain unimpressed at allowing a personal animosity to override the interests of your country's economic and political wellbeing.)
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Yesterday I was in the garden listening with pleasure to the cheeping coming from the blackbird nest each time the parents flew in with a beakful of stuff.
Last night or this morning something climbed up (or made an aerial assault on) our Virginia Creeper, ripping a chunk of it off the wall. It then trashed the blackbirds' nest (and presumably ate the contents). The parent blackbirds are gone.
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Nature red in tooth and claw as Tennyson coined it
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@Greenroofer, whatever was the assailant, it has a wide range. I discovered the carcass of a blackbird the other day, just next to my oil tank.
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Squirrels have been attacking my dad's turnips - he is furious and has declared war.
The 12 gauge was sitting at the backdoor when I arrived today.
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The red kites and peregrines I keep a distant eye on both failed to breed this year.
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There is one less seagull at the beach next to Port Seton harbour due to our dog. I think she was as surprised/shocked as us to catch it - she never came close to catching a bird before.
She's been fitted with a large bell now.
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That was his best commentary.
Blackbirds seem to be on the menu this week.
Coming back from Innerleithen on Saturday, I think gowkley moss roundabout way, a dog had been fitted with cowbells. I remarked how it reminded me of the alps.
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We've got an annoying screeching squirrel at the moment. Large water guns have been used as has the garden hose this evening due to it being so high up today. It was still out of range but scarpered, I however was the only one that got wet!
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Coming up Chesser. Either one very. Big fox split in two and squashed flat or same thing but two different foxes
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So this bird has turned up poisoned to death. Thing is it was sat-tagged so it will have recorded itself sitting down to dine on the toxic bait.
Police have had since April to look in all the places it stopped in the week before it died.
Some people will be sweating bullets. Doubt they really have anything to worry about. We shall see.
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At the crest of Harperrig there a little weasel curled on the road, deceased.
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A long mouse, you mean?
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A quarter of native mammals now at risk of extinction in the UK.
"The mammals in the most threatened categories are as follows:
Critically endangered: Wildcat, greater mouse-eared bat;
Endangered: Beaver, red squirrel, water vole, grey long-eared bat;
Vulnerable: Hedgehog, hazel dormouse, Orkney vole, Serotine bat, Barbastelle bat;
Near threatened: Mountain hare, harvest mouse, lesser white-toothed shrew, Leisler's bat, Nathusius' pipistrelle""Prof Mathews added: "While we bemoan the demise of wildlife in other parts of the world, here in Britain we are managing to send even rodents towards extinction."
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A fierce long mouse with a short tale and a white chest. Did look beautiful in repose. COuld have been a minature stoat I suppose
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