Further, it is claimed that swifts mate on the wing. This might be the tenth band I have seen (one of which is a lie)
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Wildlife highlight of the day
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Wildlife lowlights
Dead fox strung up on fence in south Lanarkshire, dead badger Lang Whang then for some reason saddest of all dead fawn Lang whang
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Last year's spot of breeding redwings now officially recorded and being monitored as Schedule 1 site. Exciting.
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Swift this morning.
In London and in a museum, so might not count?
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Anthocharis caradmines fluttered by whilst I was attacking the garden. Has a rather more prosaic name which is a great description of its wings
If Wilmington's cow ever returned here I would propose anthocharis caradmines as his new handle as h definitely had orange tips and his name used to be anth
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This might be the tenth band I have seen (one of which is a lie)
So that's actually a thing? Someone needs to do ten birds/mammals/flowers I've seen, one of which is a lie.
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@cyclingmollie, thing on Facebook, nobody got mine but it is narrowed down to either Gillian Welch or The Clash.
My obvious stand out sucker punch fooled no one (I shall add it to your ten wildlife items) as follows
Ten wildlife I have seen one which is a lie
1. Wombles
2. Reef sharks
3. Orange Tips
4. Rats
5. Ground elder
6. Red Kites
7. Dead otter
8 Kingfisher
9. Giant redwood tree
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Well the Wombles would be too obvious as they were a band fronted by Mike Batt. And I know you have ground elder issues. People claim kangaroo sightings in Scotland so that may be a red herring. Reef sharks seems too specific. I'll guess it's the kingfisher.
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@Cyclingmollie I suspect that you have the correct answer although I would suggest that gembo has almost certainly seen a kingfisher at some point, but failed to spot it.
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I do have kingfisher envy but I have spotted them on union canal and also cragside
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@jdanielp ah, I couldn't remember you having mentioned that.
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@jdanielp
Talking to yourself again?
Heron just flew over my house
Earlier on water of leith, yellow wagtail, two dippers and the heron all within 100 metres
Moved the swing down to the jungle at the bottom of my garden, wasn't much used last year. End of an era, though the trampoline abides. When it goes it will be lazy beds all the way
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@gembo looks like it... I think I've been working too hard lately (for the Greens, not the day job). I signed off an email to one of my local councillors the other day using her name rather than my own.
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Okay, I think it might be red kites on account of their persecution and disappearance from the Black Isle and other places. They cannot be seen because they are dead - that is the point.
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Red kites recently in Wales and then couple years back in Minorca where they call them Milano.
Then ten years ago in Wales again.
Huge birds tiny vpclaws can only take small rodents or carrion
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In Argentina they have the milano blanco, which is very beautiful. It looks white from below and hovers a bit like a kestrel.
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Milano is Spanish/Italian for Kite. As in Mary poppins, let's go fly a kite. Mary poppins mentioned in guardians of the Galaxy 2
Aquila is eagle.
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So it's not the Wombles, kingfisher, red kites or ground elder. If you've seen a kangaroo I'm guessing you've seen a reef shark. Giant redwoods grow in the UK. I'll try dead otter this time.
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qguila is eagle in Spanish. Cyclingmollie is asking about el lobo del río muertoPosted 7 years ago # -
this.
Not this weekend or in these parts, still counts:
In the Red Kite country - Bucks, where there's 1,000s of 'em.
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I am hearing good things about GotG2. Two recommendations. But tbh if they can film that they can film Ian M Banks novels starting with Consider Phlebas. Also I think I need to check out Predestination.
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I've not seen a racoon aka gg2 but have seen coatis
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No raccoons nor tree like creatures were harmed in the making of GG1 or GG2, it says that at the end of both films. Gg2 has more jokes.
I am thinking now I have seen a giant redwood after all. Alas I also saw a dead otter once on top road above Currie. Maybe Aquila is Italian for eagle?
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A red squirrel in Aberdeenshire.
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A Common Lizard and 4 deer in Red Moss reserve, Balerno.
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@gembo - kangaroo or wallabies? I'm sure I read that there is a wild colony of the latter on at least one islands in Loch Lomond.
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@paddyirish https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inchconnachan -- that's very interesting. Thanks that info
@gembo Aquila is definitely eagle in Latin
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@paddyirish
I have seen wallabies in the UK at Sewerby Hall in East Yorkshire just north of Bridlington. They looked freezing.
Kangaroos only spotted them in Oz
I spotted a gorilla today in the garden of the curious house just after the aqueduct if you are heading into town. that garden also has a deer which might be the one jdanielp has reported. Both of these animals are bronze or bronze effect.
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