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Wildlife highlight of the day
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Posted 7 years ago #
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Black Isle weekend wildlife highlights:
* an abundance of yellowhammers - with many using gorse bushes as cunning disguise. They blend in absolutely perfectly;
* one pine marten (sadly recently squished on road, but I've never seen one before dead or alive so I'm counting it);
* many skein of greylag geese;
* one smallish field with perhaps 300-400 Canada geese gathers together;
* a few roe deer; and
* one red and black cargo bike - possibly genus Velo Cargo - but I couldn't be certain from fleeting glance.
But no dolphins at Chanonry Point or Cromarty on this occasion. :(
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A blackbird carrying a snail west across Gilmerton Road. A heron carrying a goldfish east across Minto Street. I guess females are looking to be fed for egg-making.
A wood pigeon voiding its bowels neatly onto my left glove at the Middle Meadow Walk crossroads. Not too messy thankfully.
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Roe deer by our house in Dalkeith
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Two massive white ducks in the river Gwernol which runs into the dysyni behind the converted chapel we are holidaying at. I mean massive. The squirrels intHe dysyni valley also very muscular
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Massive white ducks? Probably a pair of elyrch.
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One is white the other is black and white
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Ah, one has been down the coal mine.
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A noisily drumming and eventually spotted great spotted woodpecker on the Roseburn path this morning, at about the same place as the young buzzard carrying a huge bunch of wild garlic that I spotted last week.
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About a dozen tiny ducklings under the watchful eye of two female ducks, just upstream of Cramond Brig. So small it may even have been their one of their first outings.
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Swallows but in wales
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A blackcap singing its little heart out in a tree in the jungle at the bottom of the garden. Ounce for ounce the blackcap must be the bird with the loudest song?
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A little deer, on the other side of the canal just past the aqueduct. It was there at 6:30ish this morning and somewhat more surprisingly still there at 8:30 or so this evening (though I only spotted it then because I heard the cracking noises as it moved and so went back to investigate).
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The first ducklings on the canal this morning in the vicinity of Kingsknowe.
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I spotted a deer the other morning on Drum estate. I suppose, technically, my dog spotted it. But he doesn't have an account here.
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Two just fledged/ing dippers on the WoL in Stockbridge, sat at the side being fed constantly by VERY harrassed looking parent birds.
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Freshly squashed rat on the towpath near the Slateford Aqueduct this morning. Not a particularly large one :(
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The deer was grazing quite unperturbed just at the south west end of the Slateford Aqueduct at 09:10 this morning.
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Top tip for nice days on Gilmerton Road. Keek over the wall into this forgotten traingle of overgrown privet gently and you sometimes see a fox or two asleep in a shaft of sunlight. Which is nicer than a squashed rat.
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Bicycle-borne sky scanners should begin looking out for the first swift of the year. I shall compose a haiku in honour of the first such CCE spot.
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Swallows here in Musselburgh a few days ago.
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Maybe another week(?)
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Gabe (@GML1320)
07/05/2016, 10:44
The swifts have arrived in Edinburgh. @SaveourSwiftshttp://pic.twitter.com/l9digIXZfz
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@chdot
My eyes rarely leave the heavens at this time of year and I have never seen one in Scotland before the fourth of May. But it's important to get into the habit of scanning so as not to miss the first one.
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Swallows at Heriot-Watt this morning. Not sure I'd be able to make a definite spot of a swift but will keep my eyes open.
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Swallows reached Bridge of Orchy on Easter weekend. I told @gembo but (s)he kept it to her(him)self. I've come over all gender neutral.
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@iwrats, I saw them first in Cymru
Lots of love
Gembo
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I've just seen a Greater Spotted Woodpecker in our small garden in Morningside.
After 2+ years and a lot of expensive birdfood, we have graduated from the occasional blackbird to lots of goldfinches (which I adore), several other kinds of finch, a range of different tits and now, at last, a woodpecker.
They may or may not be rare or unusual, but it's a highlight for me for today.
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@Greenroofer
Lovely. They can be quite wary birds, but you do see them round the leafier bits of town. Good way to spot them in flight is that they're the biggest bird you see doing the 'anti-hawk' flight profile of a burst of flapping followed by a stretch with closed wings. Gives an undulating flight that's hard to intercept. There's a nest in the wood at Good's Corner most years.
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@gembo
Thanks for that love. Swift possibly both the maddest bird and best satirist?
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It is said that after leaving the nest the swift does not land for 18 months. Such is its love of flying.
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