I startled a cat in my garden at the back of my flat. I like cats won't own one because I like birds as well. About 5 minutes later I saw the same cat in front of the flat, with a mouse in its mouth, trotting under parked cars in that surreptitious way of cats with prey. I wonder if it caught it in my garden.
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Wildlife lowlight of the week
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"placate"
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@Iain McR
We have to wait for the Grouse Moor Management Group to report. England is a lost cause. Natural England has pulled its forelock clean out and has started a full kowtow to the feudal superiors.
But aye. Rule 2ing Rule 2s.
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How about removing the grouse chicks from the grouse? At least that way when they are orphaned in the name of aristocratic fun they wont have had a chance to form attachments to their parents.
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I was bicycling in the Highlands when I came across a very freshly killed brown hare in the middle of the road. Put it in the shady long grass and on the way back slung it across the spring-loaded luggage rack on my bike, much to the amusement of the roadies coming the other way.
Still warm when I butchered it and put the horrigles out for the red kites. Three and a half kilos of meat.
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Here Hare Here?
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Shaking mouse poops out of some old rugs which are too nice for mice! Relocated to attic.
IWRATS what did you make out of the hare?!
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@Sheeptoucher
I'll jug that hare. Old skool. I have a copy of Mrs Beaton and everything.
We ate its liver, heart and kidneys there and then.
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Getting excited about seeing an otter in Kilchoan on the way to the pub* only to discover I could have stayed at home and seen TWO!
*me on way to pub, otter was going the other way
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For the last couple of weeks there has been a solo duckling in the Figgate. Seems quite street smart 9has thus far avoided the otter, and has been very good at listening for other warning calls from birds). And while fingers are crossed I've since been informed why it's there by another Friend of the Park.
It appears a group of ladies were walking in the Lammermuirs, and they found it 'orphaned', so took it away for safety. And instead of calling the SSPCA or the like... They released it into the Figgate in the hope another duck would adopt it.
Sigh.
Well-meaning, but ultimately just not the right thing to do!
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@gembo are you the farmer?
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@jdanielp No I've gone on holiday by accident
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The hare is now bathing in a mixture of Shiraz, orange juice and zest, garlic, juniper, thyme and bay.
I boned out the legs as they were looking a bit biological otherwise. Roasted the bones for stock.
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I'll stop round about 7pm tomorrow then? How many does one hare serve?
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Three and a half kilos of quite gamey meat should go a long way. Will need a good chunky red to wash it down, yeah?
PS Just realised I am being right about that saddle of hare.
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I am being right about that saddle of hare.
Please imagine the Look I'm giving you now.
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Imagine the looks you could get if you start having opinions about pig breeds, or Cumbrian fells including or in relation to Blencathra.
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There have been several hints towards withnail and I in this IWRATSH thread
How big a jug do you need for 3.5 kg of meat?
Why do I prefer a hare to a rabbit?
Can anyone spot the odd one out lifted from some papers I was reading yesterday
Marty likes bunnies, cats, unicorns and puppies.
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@gembo, you terrible man, you prefer hare because they are your aerials. They pick up signals from the cosmos, and transmit them directly into the brain. This is the reason bald-headed men are uptight.
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Do we have to refer to you as IABRATS(OH)?
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I still think @bill's IWARTS formulation is my all-time favourite.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-48622045
"Kirkcudbright red kites were poisoned"
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Danny: And then he started coming on all bald with me
Withnail: I'm sorry Danny?
Danny: our hairs are our antennae with which we pick up messages from other planets
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The hare was delicious. Shared it with pals on Sunday.
I bulked the last of the carbonade up with a bit of sugo and served it on papardelle last night.
I left the guts and head fifty metres from a red kite nest so I'm hoping the chicks got that.
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Bold words from Andy Wightman that the influencers of this criminality have access and influnce in the highest levels of government and so by implicatiion are blocking action to effectively tackle this evil.
I think substantial summary fines for grouse moor owners where birds disappear. If it continues, prison sentences. Make owners responsible for the crime on their estates.
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Paul, owners are already responsible for crimes on their estates.
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2011/6/contents/enacted
Famously, Kildrummie turned out to be owned by Trust A in the channel islands. Trust A was owned by Trust B which was owned by Trust C. Trust C was owned by Trust A.
The gamekeeper who beat a goshawk to death with a stick was convicted, their employer simply declined to be identified.
And Mr Wightman isn't being sued because he upset the wild cat people, he's being sued to remove him from parliament because he keeps pointing out the power of Trusts A to C.
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IWRATS, yes, I momentarily forgot that nobody knows who the owners of many of the largest estates are.
Okay then, after 3 strikes confiscation of the estate by the Scottish Governments?
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Fox dug our late cat's grave up last night. Nothing but bones so it left them and I covered them back up after I'd said hello.
We were away and the kind neighbour is frail so hadn't planted him too deeply.
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