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Couple of dead hedgehogs (Mallorca). Also the Sineu rat has been lying deceased outside our Airbnb for four days. Ants have stopped eating it now.
German MAMILS also have a different custom from Brit MAMILS. Whilst we seek the privacy of a bush to have a pee in they just stand talking to their pals whilst peeing. Horses for courses. (cap des Salines turn, south east tip of Mallorca. Quite thinly populated apart from cyclists)
Above mink was at bridge 14
Mink bad
A dead rat on The Guild Wheel in Preston this morning. Its body had been moved to a hedgerow by the afternoon. Also a dead hedgehog near one of the road crossings.
I saw a deadgehog yesterday. I think it was on Salters Road between Dalkeith and the A68, but it might've been on Carberry Road heading towards Inveresk.
Sadly I saw one too up in Fife.
Found a coal tit stone dead in the road still with a beak-full of moss to line its nest.
Tragic and touching. I put it in a safe place as is my wont with dead birds.
Squirrel remains on the road crossing west of North Meadow Walk.
It certainly isn't the all-powerful scofflaw cycling lobby that is responsible for killing animals at the roadside. :(
Pesky pigeons on the Blackhall Path this morning. They always ignore my bell and wait until I am almost among them before they take off resulting in near bird strikes.
Lot of bad dog walkers on WoL path this week but also a couple of very well trained dogs
Sitting in the sun in my garden over the weekend felt a sudden wetness on one ankle. A pigeon with good aim...
Fresh deadgehog on Roslin Main Street this evening. I hope it wasn't the same one that visited my garden recently and ate all the snails.
What's with all the dead hedgehogs? My dogs were very excited to find one in the middle of the street round this morning.
Hopefully not the one they are just as excited to see alive in the garden occasionally.
A blue tit has taken exception to one of our windows - a small opening section in the lounge. It's spending half its time flying into it, trying to perch on it and pecking it. It is clearly wasting huge amounts of feeding time and its brood must be very hungry.
I've chased it away and tried a cardboard sparrowhawk silhouette but it will not be deterred. Must be seeing its own reflection or something. The local cats will get it eventually.
There are mirrors placed at appropriate spots near windows in my parents' house, to deter similar attacks.
I can't figure out why a bird will attack a relatively poor reflection of itself in a pane of glass, but not a much better reflection in a mirror, but apparently it works.
I try not to have mirrors in the house for obvious reasons but I'll give it a go....intriguing.
Or you could maybe stick a bit of paper to the outside of the offending pane for a couple of days?
Still No Orcas (for me, R from Drive Orkney saw some from Sanday at the weekend but they continue to evade me).
Old landlady reports that Tankerness is now almost without short eared owls due to introduced stoats eating all the voles. There's always been one hunting the field outside her living room till the wee fur snakes arrived.
The blue tit is now using the cardboard sparrowhawk as a perch to sit on and tap at the window. It is going to do itself a serious mischief.
@Stickman
Have you read Pelican Blood by Chris Freddi? Doesn't change anything but it's deeply cathartic.
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Dead deer found in Edinburgh's Princes Street
Concerns have been raised that deer may be living in a park in the centre of Edinburgh, after a deer carcass was found on Princes Street.
It was found near Princes Mall by councillor Joanna Mowat as she travelled to work at 08:45.
She believes it was hit by traffic on the busy shopping street.
And she fears there could be more deer living in neighbouring Princes Street Gardens - posing a serious issue for traffic on nearby roads.
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"Deer have a habit of jumping out from bushes and there are roads all around the gardens so they would be a real risk to transport," she said.
Hmmm...OKayyyy..but:
1) There's a 20mph limit on every street around Princes Street Gardens, and
2) There are railings all the way around Princes Street Gardens (except where there are gates - and it would rather defeat the object to obstruct gateways with shrubbery). I know that deer can jump high, but having one jump over a fence is not quite the same as having one dart out from a bush.
A slight over-reaction to an extremely rare occurrence. or is CEC now going to have to fund regular anti-deer patrols in the gardens? And what about Holyrood Park - you're much more likely to get deer there, I'd have thought?
Then there's the bypass, which is much more exposed to wildlife and which (sometimes) has 70mph traffic on it...
Oh dear. I wonder how many people would be foxed by that?
Total estrangement from wild things innit? If you can't tell a fox from a deer you need to go back to nature school. I mean the big tail and the sharp teeth? No? The lack of hooves maybe? Still nothing?
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