From leith walk - women bites off man’s tongue, seagull flies away with it, court case
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Wildlife lowlight of the week
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"From leith walk - women bites off man’s tongue, seagull flies away with it, court case"
@gembo Mr Bill read me the story and I really enjoyed it. Also the man and woman were strangers. She bit off the tongue while kissing him!
To it was more like a 'highlight' rather then a 'lowlight'.Posted 3 years ago # -
Like an everyday story of love and loss in Leith?
Getting turned into a musical called Tongue’s Mine in Leith
I have my coat already
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Four dead badgers on the Whang twixt Balerno and Carnwath at the moment
Had three unrelated flies hit my face this morning, spring is sprung the grass is riz
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First dead frog of the season just west of Balerno A70
First dead toad of the season Harperig Rezzy.
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Pesticide free Balerno going great guns. Hand picking but now some sort of foam
This is Midlothian they are using the glyphosate
Two more dead frogs squashed on roads of Balerno. One on cockburnhill and other top of beech Ave.
It is carnage I tell you.
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Some seagull deposited its, um, waste all over me. I think that it what it was. A lowlight from my point of view if not the seagull's...
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The Rachel Carsonesque silence in Saltoun forest on Monday. We did eventually see a buzzard and heard a couple of small birds but that was in over two hours of walking.
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Ah we had that on east cairn grouse moor desert the other day. Also ended with buzzard. Big brown buzzard
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Baby badger killed crossing the newly opened Braid Rd :-(
I suppose the badger family had got used to crossing without metal death machines.
https://twitter.com/johnrobson87/status/1385910808396378118?s=20
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Cyclingmollie how odd. I was in Saulton Forest yesterday and spent a very pleasant few minutes lying in the sun listening to the birds...
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@fimm, the birds like you (see your earlier post)
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:-D
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@neddie: minor correction. It was on Cluny Gardens that the badger was killed. Some people heard "tennis club" beside "the Hermitage" and thought it was Braid Road but it was the tennis/bowling club at the Blackford Pond entrance on Cluny Gardens. Unfortunately the reason I know this is that we walked past it with my kids in the morning. :(
That's badgers, otters, migrating toads, and very nearly a swan all killed on Cluny Gardens by speeding cars. It's meant to be going to 20mph at some point this year but honestly there needs to be further recognition of it being a road beside a nature reserve with people walking in/out for walks and frequently has wildlife.
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Someone has taken a chainsaw to the osprey nesting platform in Llyn Brenig
More here.
What with this, and idiots booby-trapping the green off-road bike trail in Callender Park, I'm beginning to wonder whether it's not time to re-impose the "Stay At Home" restrictions, since some people obviously cannot be trusted to behave like civilised human beings when let out of the house.
P.S. Not really...but then again...
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Anyone seen the muzzled Shetland pony near the start of the Water of Leith Walkway in Balerno? Thought it seemed a bit cruel and it looked really sad. Would it be to prevent it from eating/being fed? Or maybe it bites people? Was with another black horse that looked similarly sad and bored.
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@glossywolf, furryboots? In the field across from the high school?
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“looked similarly sad and bored”
Long faces?
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@gembo Yes maybe? About half a mile along the path on the right. White and very fluffy. Does it normally have a muzzle on? Only just noticed it today.
@chdot ...
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Sorry that was supposed to have an emoji on the end. Guess they don’t work here... :)
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@glossywolf, ok know where you are that is different field. Those wee horses will bite ya if you try to feed them for sure.
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Ex-hedgehog on the Seafield shared use path, though at least it implies the potential of nearby live hedgehogs, unless it had been stuck to a car for several miles.
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