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“And she fears there could be more deer living in neighbouring Princes Street Gardens - posing a serious issue for traffic on nearby roads.”
Once, just once, can the Tory reaction to something be anything other than “but what about the cars?”
Tally-ho, the New Town Hunt is on....
I'm fairly sure an earlier version of the BBC article on this quoted Cllr Mowat as saying it had hooves.
Must have been a fair mess to leave any room for confusion at all.
A fox with hooves? End of Times.
@Frenchy: Yes, it's been significantly reworked since I posted the link - the headline has been changed, and the version I quoted from had a lot more text in it.
Aaaaaaaa.
This Sunday I pedalled up the WoL to Balerno, walked the mother round Harlaw (slowly) then returned home the same way. Wearing a loose long sleeve top, & at times a jacket.
Got home covered in greenfly which is only to be expected given the weather and season. But. There were NO midges at the reservoir I swear, and no cleggy stabs of pain either. And I was moving the whole time on the WoL. So. What. Has. Bitten. Me?????
I have about 25 massive itchy red welts, some on one upper arm but most on my neck/shoulders/ upper back. Furiously itchy, swollen, ow.
What crawls under your top and inflicts this damage? I'm doped up on antihistamines and slathered in alternating hydrocortisone and topical antihistamines and it's not really helping!
Newts?
@unhurt
This has happened three times now. I have a can of Indorex you can borrow.
Don't make me post pictures of the inflamed injuries.
Unhurt, I hope you recover quickly, and that they aren’t tick bites. A pal recently returned from a bike packing trip near Mallaig with over fifty tick bites.
Cheers
Colin
Aaaaaaaaaaargh.
(99% sure not ticks. Was 100% sure but now doubt has been planted...)
@unhurt
There would be a small black dot (the actual tick) in the middle of each welt. Hand lens needed for seed ticks. If they are ticks get them out quick with a tick pick. Unlikely on the east coast, but prudence mon ami.
No, def not ticks. But what? Clegs would have hurt at the time. Birch flies? I am still red & welty & VERY ITCHY. Going to go and flash the pharmacist and see if I need to call the GP for a phone consult & some big steroid cream guns. Was awake half the night ripping holes in the bites (lesser in number but even more itchy) on my ankles!
My bet would be minute pirates no don't laugh seriously.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthocoridae
Nasty bite and I had no idea they existed and it took some research to figure out what was stabbing me in the garden.
A bit early for Lothian berry bugs:-
https://www.warristonallotments.com/berry-bugs.html
I've been attacked by these and almost flayed myself scratching.
... MUST STOP READING THREAD ... ITCHING EVERYWHERE....
Sorry caps...
not sorry still itching!
On a more prosaic note, what about mosquitoes? "Massive itchy red welts" sounds very like what my missus ended up with after a couple of days in Napoli. They didn't only attack at night, she got bites appearing after walking around the city and surrounding sights during the day. The pharmacist actually shrieked when she showed her the rather gruesome-looking evidence! She then diagnosed mosquito bites and sold us a combination antihistamine & antiseptic cream, which calmed the itching fairly quickly but took a day or so to start to reduce the inflammation.
She's been 'got' a fair few times since, in Calabria and Tuscany. No idea why it always seems to be in Italy, but the Italians do have a healthy respect for/fear of their local breeds of 'zanzare' - possibly a hangover from the significant malaria problem they used to have in the rice-growing areas around the Po valley.
I wondered about climate-change induced Pentland mosquitoes but usually I get more of a massive white lump from mosquito bites... and would they creep down my jumper?
Leaning towards sand flies or black flies based on images or welts in that link - or Iwrats' mini pirates...
@steveo maybe don't click that link
Thanks for the heads up unhurt. though I've started itching as soon as I load the forum....
On way back from outing to get lunch I found a minute pirate on my hand in the street.
Evidence building.
Update: WILL NO-ONE RID ME OF THIS TURBULENT ITCH?
The Pentland peregrine pair are not on the traditional nest. Last year the male was found poisoned.
I hope whoever did it contracts a chronic, painful, humiliating, disfiguring and ultimately fatal disease.
Probably same wee ankle biters that get me when cutting the grass if not in long trews
@iwrats I am so angry about that.
Even my very unradical liberal boss thinks land reform proposals are nowhere near radical enough, so at least there's some hope that attitudes to lawless landowners and their minority pursuits are a-changing...
Does seem quite hard to pin down culprits. Though apart from the landowner who cooperates (not one of the bigger owners) I think they all have gamekeepers who shoot raptors, Ravens and crows. Also some poisoners. Saw a baited trap without bait miles from the eastern end of pentlands. Borestane way. Above carlops. A few years back.
You do not see many raptors in the pentlands.
Does seem quite hard to pin down culprits.
The new satellite tags have shown that almost all unexplained disappearances of eagles and hen harriers are on or near grouse moors.
Time to accept that the entire 'industry' depends on constant widespread criminality.
Even my very unradical liberal boss thinks land reform proposals are nowhere near radical enough
The more I read the angrier I become. It's one of the fundamental weirdnesses of Scotland.
I recommend reading Inglorious by Mark Avery. The slaughter of our natural heritage is truly disgraceful.
Cheers
Colin
Dead deer honking great badger between Gowkley Moss and the Seafield Moor Road.
Deadgehog on the Seafield Moor Road.
Put it this way, it isn't the all-powerful scofflaw cycling lobby that is responsible for killing wild animals on the road.
Small deid fox on Mayfield Road.
Scabby fox limped through the garden as I was having breakfast. Stopped to empty its bowels so I shooed it off but I think it was a bit deaf. Such is nature.
@Arellcat - Cats and cars are the worst killers of wildlife.
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