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Wildlife highlight of the day

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  1. gembo
    Member

    Swifts and green parakeets down here in Richmond / ham

    Posted 6 years ago #
  2. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    @Greenroofer's fish post made me look closer at the canal. There are actually a mix of roach and perch, with perch more common the further you get out of town, in mixed shoals.

    Also an orange-tip butterfly at Kingsknowe. No rat, but cygnets.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  3. SRD
    Moderator

    3 cygnets + 2 adults

    Posted 6 years ago #
  4. gembo
    Member

    Approx 8 common gulls and two black headed gulls all mobbing each other and swooping but never landing mostly in neighbour's garden. Not sure what the rumpus was

    Posted 6 years ago #
  5. jdanielp
    Member

    Excited to have spotted my first Edinburgh badger up on Craiglockhart Hill just now.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  6. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    Interesting project for wildlife fans;

    http://www.wildlifeinformation.co.uk/scottish_spider_search_taking_part.php

    I just spotted one of the daddy long-legs spiders living in the bin in our bathroom so I'll be reporting that.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  7. amir
    Member

    Face off with a roe deer on the river path in Inveresk. It finally decided to leave the scene but I was within 3m.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  8. Klaxon
    Member

    It's a midgepocolypse on both the Restalrig and Water of Leith paths

    Posted 6 years ago #
  9. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    Looks like the Scottish Government is going to take some action to protect our birds of prey.

    The commissioning of research into the social utility of large shooting estates will be the talk of the town. (The towns in question being Tortola in the British Virgin Islands, El Dorado in Panama and the other domiciles of the landowners in the south west Cairngorms.)

    Posted 6 years ago #
  10. gembo
    Member

    The mangy foxes are back underneath St. Andrews house. Nice to see them prowling in the sun

    Posted 6 years ago #
  11. Stickman
    Member

  12. chdot
    Admin

    From above -

    "

    The Scottish Gamekeepers Association (SGA) said the loss of an average of four eagles a year was "totally unacceptable" and it "condemned wholeheartedly" the illegal killing of any eagle.

    A spokesman for the group added: "Although this study assimilates 12 years of evidence and makes difficult reading, it does acknowledge recent improvements in some grouse moor areas previously associated with suspected persecution."

    "

    Posted 6 years ago #
  13. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    it does acknowledge recent improvements in some grouse moor areas previously associated with suspected persecution

    In other news burglars are wearing hoodies and gloves and leaving their mobile phones at home.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  14. jules878
    Member

    Several large ducklings sitting together on narrow path under one of the canal bridges this morning. Somewhat hazardous for their own survival, as well as for any cyclist who brakes suddenly on encountering them.

    Their protective mother was in the canal below, but she really ought to tell these "teenage ducklinquents" that this isn't a good spot to hang out!

    Posted 6 years ago #
  15. jdanielp
    Member

    Yesterday evening, the cygnets were asleep while floating on the canal with their parents protectively patrolling around them. This morning, the cygnets were awake in a pile in the gorilla garden while the parents slept nearby.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  16. Greenroofer
    Member

    Dozens of leeches on the towpath this morning. Black, brown and green, and up to four inches long. Round Meggetland they were avoidable, but unfortunately by Wester Hailes there were so many in places that some squelching was inevitable.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  17. fimm
    Member

    Very cute little fluffy thing, like a giant hairy caterpillar with legs, scurrying around on the road past the Kirkliston airfield. I guess a shrew of some sort? I hope it got off the road before it got squashed...

    Posted 6 years ago #
  18. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    giant hairy caterpillar with legs, scurrying

    That would be a weasel?

    Posted 6 years ago #
  19. jdanielp
    Member

    The swan family were seemingly happily sharing the gorilla garden with a duck family this morning.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  20. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    Fishing in Acarsaid Mhòr, panicked a grey seal that surfaced about five meters away, caught sight of me and crash-dived.

    Then a golden eagle drifted over.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  21. fimm
    Member

    @IWRATS this thing was tiny. I thought weasels were bigger.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  22. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    Weasel about six inches long I think. Shrews about size of walnut.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  23. Frenchy
    Member

    Weasels are surprisingly small, like a stretch limousine mouse.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  24. fimm
    Member

    OK, well maybe it was a weasel. I just had this impression of a busy furry caterpillar-thing, obviously actually a mammal. I was going downhill fairly briskly at the time...

    Posted 6 years ago #
  25. amir
    Member

    Hares as usual in Dalkeith country park. Skylarks in the field by QMU

    Posted 6 years ago #
  26. fimm
    Member

    Oh and IWRATS I've just noticed your post and you are a jammy so-and-so.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  27. gembo
    Member

    spotted weasels out by airfield before. Spotted a Fimm in Currie this morning. Said hello

    Posted 6 years ago #
  28. fimm
    Member

    Oh, it was you! I did wonder... (Sorry, wrong thread).

    Posted 6 years ago #
  29. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    IWRATS I've just noticed your post and you are a jammy so-and-so

    A pair of golden eagles shepherding a white-tailed eagle off the summit of Hecla in blazing, if cold, sunshine. The male did an aerial victory dance below us to celebrate. Views from Mull to Torridon to Harris to St Kilda. No midges till the last hundred meters of the day.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  30. chdot
    Admin

    Not sure about highlight, at least it didn't go for our food.

    Posted 6 years ago #

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