The Kingsknowe Rat was dead in a pool of fresh blood this morning just by the canal bridge east of Gogar Station Road.
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Wildlife lowlight of the week
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Posted 1 year ago #
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(Well it’s wild now…)
Posted 1 year ago # -
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Our conversation is dominated by the continuing persecution of our great birds of prey and the need to alter the mind-sets that allow large parts of Scotland to be turned into arid wastelands to protect the indolent pastimes of the super-rich. His campaigning on these issues has also made him a target for the powerful interests associated with their activities.
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“There’s a misconception among those who mainly live in urban areas that if a wilderness doesn’t have anything made of concrete on it then it must be natural, unspoilt habitat. The truth is though, that much of what they’re seeing is a highly modified landscape where all the trees have been cut down and it’s been grievously over-grazed. This isn’t a landscape; it’s a manscape.”
Mr Packham’s unequivocal condemnation of those organisations whom he holds responsible for damaging Scotland and the UK’s natural bounty have put him in their crosshairs. He’s had death threats reinforced by the slaughtered remains of dead birds hung outside his home.
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Posted 1 year ago # -
The Kingsknowe Rat (dead and very wet) on the canal towpath between town and Harrison park. Spotted by my partner on her run yesterday.
The Kingsknowe Rat (alive and also very wet) swimming the canal to mount a raid on Tesco at Meggetland.
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A rat came scampering out of a neighour's garden on to the pavement. I managed not to shriek, and he did scamper back again.
Posted 1 year ago # -
Long live the Kingsknowe rat!
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Dead fox in the hedge alongside the Gilmerton Road shared use path.
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Father and son made £40,000 from stealing falcon eggs and selling chicks
Timothy and Lewis Hall illegally possessed and sold wild peregrine falcon chicks over a number of years.
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‘A golden eagle that mysteriously vanished in the Borders during the autumn is now believed to have been shot.
Police investigating the disappearance of the missing bird, named Merrick, are confident she died due to "human interference".’https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn0rzl5q7gpo
https://www.goldeneaglessouthofscotland.co.uk/blog/persecution-suspected-in-disappearance-of-merrick
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx8qg4z0gl4o.amp This man's stolen egg count is over 8,000 in his 20 year period of raiding birds' nests and egg theft. Clearly not only potentially 8,000 unhatched eggs but also generational loss is massive including birds on the red list. Dodged prison time again!
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https://raptorpersecutionuk.org/2024/05/04/police-appeal-for-info-after-osprey-remains-found-nr-loch-of-the-lowes-reserve-perthshire/ no comment being made further to current and ongoing investigation. It may be that he died of natural causes as his return this year was a bonus.
Posted 11 months ago # -
Maybe a mink swimming under one of the canal bridges just west of the bypass before exiting the water to the far side of the towpath one evening earlier this week. It was a bit damp and my glasses weren't clean, so it is not impossibe that it was the Kingsknowe Rat appearing to be longer than it usually does...
Posted 10 months ago # -
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Ministers are to miss a crucial deadline to stop breaches in the law that protects Scotland's precious landscape, environment and wildlife.
Scots legal justice charity, the Environmental Rights Centre for Scotland (ERCS) has raised concerns to the Scottish Government over the failure over the nation's 'unaffordable' court system after it said an attempt to by Scotland's civil justice rule-makers to plug a part of the problem has failed.
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Posted 7 months ago # -
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Hunting Kind believes hunting is an extension of natural selection.
In the video, Swales said: “We see it as a really important part of wildlife management … We’re actually doing people a service. We’re picking up the foxes or the hares or the deer or the rabbits that are either old, they’ve got no teeth, they can die of starvation, or they’ve got the disease, or they’re just not adapted to outperforming a dog in that chase. So we’re happy with that natural selectivity.”
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Posted 7 months ago # -
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What is causing the declines this year? The short-term culprit is bad weather. March and April, which are crucial months for insects were cool, wet and cloudy. It was the UK’s wettest spring since 1986. Butterflies, for example, need some warm and dry weather to be able to fly around and mate.
“Overall, the weather conditions in the spring have made it much more difficult than normal for insects to fly, forage, nest and just generally go about their daily lives,” says Dr Richard Comont, who leads the national bumblebee monitoring scheme, BeeWalk. “The summer has been slightly better, but not by much – still unseasonably cool for most of June and July.”
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Posted 7 months ago # -
The Kingsknowe Rat was dead on the canal towpath this morning in the middle of one of the metal chicanes by the Polwarth Crescent and/or Yeaman Place Bridge. Long live the Kingsknowe Rat which I spotted alive and well shortly afterwards, scuttling across the towpath in the Kingskowne area.
Posted 5 months ago # -
The Kingsknowe Rat was dead on the canal towpath this morning near the Bridge 8 Hub.
Posted 4 months ago # -
The Bonnyrigg rat was dead on NCN196 last week. It was flat on its back, with all its legs slightly curled and tail outstretched, in a perfectly cartoonish "urgk!" position.
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Dead fox on Cluny Gardens last week in the gutter in front of my house. Council were notified to come pick up and in the meantime a lady stopped her car, got out, picked up the fox and threw it into my front garden! Bizarre behaviour. I moved it back to the pavement and council picked it up three hours later.
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She was the only passerby to give a flying fox about the situation.
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Thatcher is trying to kill the birds due to their trenchant analysis of her as the root cause of all problems since 1979 [from her beyond the grave status]
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More than 6,000 eggs have been seized in the biggest haul of its kind in UK history, after police carried out raids in Scotland, South Yorkshire, Essex, Wales and Gloucester. Thousands of eggs were found secreted in attics, offices and drawers.“
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But Reeves, who said she was “shocked” at the speed of the planning system, courted controversy when she said that developers will be able to pay into a proposed nature restoration fund rather than considering the impact on development on “bats and newts”.
Joan Edwards, director of policy and public affairs at The Wildlife Trusts, said: “Reeves appears unaware of the vital role nature plays in the UK, contrary to her ambition to become ‘Britain’s first green chancellor’. Nature protections are not blocking the UK’s success – they underpin our economy and make us safer. In fact, fuelling nature-degradation will only serve as a barrier to the prosperous growth the UK government wants.
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https://www.bigissue.com/news/politics/rachel-reeves-economy-nature-bats-and-newts/
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The campaign group, WildFish, warned that the salmon farming lobby held “far too much power” over ministers and regulators. “The recent legal appeals by the salmon farming industry lay bare the utter contempt this industry shows for MSPs, regulators and anyone who dares try to curb its polluting operations,” said the group’s Scotland director, Rachel Mulrenan.
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https://theferret.scot/salmon-farms-210-appeals-lice-controls/
Posted 6 days ago #
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