A nest with three eggs in it in the reeds by the canal towpath just next to Polwarth Crescent Bridge, yet no obvious sign of any parents nearby.
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Wildlife lowlight of the week
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@ejstubbs
RPUK are not keen for this harrier to be counted as persecuted as there is no real evidence as yet.
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Found an ear on road above eddleston. Black triangle, very cleanly sliced.
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On the coast road outside Port Seaton: a wood pigeon sitting in the carriageway facing traffic, its head thrown back as if laughing but blood foaming out of its beak.
Back broken in a collision I think. Cars avoiding it when they should have annihilated the poor creature.
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A jay, squashed on the road. Lovely blue markings fwiw.
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A buddleia growing in the gutter. I pointed this out to the upstairs neighbour, who does scaffolding offshore, and so has no qualms about climbing ladders. He climbed, pulled it out, then said that he couldn't get the root out, which had grown vertically up a downpipe that was packed with dirt.
I like a theatre nurse handed him a bamboo cane, a long metal pole for removing a toby, a fork but the earth was so packed that in the end he had to dismantle the down pipe and hand it down. It was half filled with packed earth. We tried various implements, but nothing worked, until he thought to get a sword from his flat. He twisted that down the pipe and loosened the earth.
Of course I said he was now the rightful King of Scotland.
What I call a gutter, he calls a rone. Sword in the rone...
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See also Rhône, roan, ronn, roun and rune
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Seen on a grouse moor yesterday
#ScotlandsShame
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Shocking
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tropical carnage on the mean streets of the West End.
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That's just melted, that has
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P18 Waverley.
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Committed vulpine resurrectionist tried to rob the cat's grave again last night. Measures now in place.
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boar-wars-how-wild-hogs-are-trashing
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I'm a dog, a dirty flying dog.
I drink Campari with marinated wild hog.
I've no sense, I like electric fence.
I put barbed wire in my pants and do a Celtic dance.
"Primus, eh?
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as seen on reddit
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Far to many dead and injured creatures to list while riding through the Cairngorms on Friday. I suspect that the hare with a presumably broken leg by the side of the Glenshee climb will live with me for some time.
On a slightly happier lowlight note there were at least two buzzards circling overhead on Saturday while I was stationary repairing a puncture. I'm not sure exactly how poor they considered my technique to think it work waiting.
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A very flat rat in the middle of Ferniehill Drive. One of the dogs was very eager to have a closer look.
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Little curled up hedgehog in’t middle of road (A70) having its innards pecked out by crows
Shame, not a great evolutionary strategy the curling up as the car approaches, but you try telling them
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Dead rat in Livingston.
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A grim picture of a Golden Eagle with a trap attached to its talons taken by a tourist near Crathie. One of the many black spots for wildlife crime coincidentally close to a Grouse Moor.
https://raptorpersecutionscotland.wordpress.com/
Colin
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More information about why driven Grouse shooting should be banned.
Colin
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Something to think about next time one finds oneself in the Lammermuirs:
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Dead fox by the roadside in Livingston. I don't think I've seen a fox as roadkill before.
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I have seen a few foxes as roadkill, unfortunately, and even saw one hit by the car ahead of me one time - the driver had only moments previously overtaken me (also in a car) at an inappropriate speed on the country road in the Kingdom of Fife.
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@fimm: Foxes as roadkill are unfortunately not that uncommon. I was most saddened in spring last year when a vixen clearly with cubs who had just started visiting our garden turned up run over on Oxgangs Road a couple of days later. (I may have mentioned it on here at the time.)
Back in the 1970s when I lived in the East Midlands a driver of a small sports car (MGB or some such) crashed and died in a single vehicle incident on the A38 dual carriageway near Burton on Trent. The police found a dead fox entangled in the front suspension, and hypothesised that the collision had likely led to the loss of control.
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The dead one beside the Restalrig Path is unlikely to have been roadkill, though tubes on motorised things do roar along there every couple of days. I suspect it was cornered on the verge by some sort of evil dog and couldn't find a way through the fence into the allotments in time.
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