I'll announce my property as a Hunting Lodge with big bags of mice guaranteed.
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Wildlife lowlight of the week
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@Rosie
Actual LOL.
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I failed to spot the otter in Dunsapie Loch for the first time this afternoon. A lot of other people were trying to spot it as well, and an ice cream van was parked with its engine running, neither of which seemed likely to help...
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Lowlight or highlight depending on your point of view. A big set of muddy cat paw prints up the windscreen of the car this morning :) I put it under lowlight because I keep finding dead mice and voles in the garden. I think this is the culprit.
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“big set of muddy cat paw prints up the windscreen of the car this morning“
Borders’ puma??
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I saw a wildcat once on Lauder common, I've never seen the Puma though!
Someone claims to have seen a black panther in Gala a few years ago.
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I accidentally chased a mouse that I spotted running down my street into the stairwell last night (our door was the first that it encountered that had a big enough gap for it to conveniently fit under). I didn't see it inside so I'm hoping that it went into the back garden or the ground floor flat rather than heading upstairs towards mine...
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That scotcats data is irrefutable evidence
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2 dollops of fox poo in the front garden today. I like foxes but I wish they would crap in someone else's garden!
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Piranhas in River Ness.
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It is my belief that Felis silvestris silvestris is extinct. Too many feral cats and hybrids to ever be sure now. Last study I saw on hair traps recovered no samples without domestic cat DNA.
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I know the sister of the Wildcat Chap. He seems to have some pure bloods, along with the muggles and half bloods
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Which wildcat chap? Scottish Wildcat Action and Wildcat Haven fight like...er....dog and dog.
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SWA judging by surname. He looks nowt like his sister.
Is this the right thread for the qualcast quiet cobra 32 lawnmower? Just replaced the switch. Mrs Garto ordered from Prime. Might go another 30 years now
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Correct thread yes. QuietCobra32 is my Tindr name.
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It is quiet and it is the smaller machine I think there is a 64 but Cobra? Nope. You would have to be able to pack it into the basket for that to work
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Carnage on roads of west Lothian and south Lanarkshire this a.m.
Two dead badgers
Two dead foxes
Dead rabbits and squirrels
Pigeon with heart ripped out
Dead magpie.Posted 4 years ago # -
Pigeon with heart ripped out
Metaphorically or physically?
If the former then potentially it was the lover of one the aforementioned deceased animals?
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@arobcomp, I like where you are going with that. Alas it was blood, gore and feathers. The fox had a pinky puke out of its mouth on way out that had evaporated on return
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My daughters were very upset to find (most of) a pigeon on their trampoline having watched a hawk grab its dinner. I was annoyed because I missed the hawk do it's thing and I had to clean up the remains.
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Seeing a successful hawk strike is a blessing. Two for me in lockdown.
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We saw a dead red squirrel on the road from Balquhidder to Inverlochlarig at the weekend.
I've seen a few live ones in my time, this is the first time I've seen one as roadkill.Posted 4 years ago # -
Dead owl by Gladhouse (tawny). I think I may have run over a grey squirrel at the weekend - in a reversal of roles, a car stopped after me to attend.
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Sickening and depressing article.
https://markavery.info/2020/09/23/an-interesting-paper-pb-in-buzzards/
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That is bad about the lead suggests the game birds get missed by the hunters or scavenged out of pits?
Saw wee dead dear near wombles HQ corner of Leyden Road and Lang Whang, this am.
I was also underdressed for the chill
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There's a large known unknown about the proportion of gamebirds wounded by shot. (They call it 'pricking'.)
Seems the proportion is very high, possibly indicating that they should a) sober up and b) learn to shoot straight.
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