Swifts and green parakeets down here in Richmond / ham
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Wildlife highlight of the day
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@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.
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3 cygnets + 2 adults
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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
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Excited to have spotted my first Edinburgh badger up on Craiglockhart Hill just now.
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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.
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Face off with a roe deer on the river path in Inveresk. It finally decided to leave the scene but I was within 3m.
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It's a midgepocolypse on both the Restalrig and Water of Leith paths
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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.)
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The mangy foxes are back underneath St. Andrews house. Nice to see them prowling in the sun
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From above -
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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."
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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...
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giant hairy caterpillar with legs, scurrying
That would be a weasel?
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The swan family were seemingly happily sharing the gorilla garden with a duck family this morning.
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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.
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@IWRATS this thing was tiny. I thought weasels were bigger.
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Weasel about six inches long I think. Shrews about size of walnut.
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Weasels are surprisingly small, like a stretch limousine mouse.
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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...
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Hares as usual in Dalkeith country park. Skylarks in the field by QMU
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Oh and IWRATS I've just noticed your post and you are a jammy so-and-so.
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spotted weasels out by airfield before. Spotted a Fimm in Currie this morning. Said hello
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Oh, it was you! I did wonder... (Sorry, wrong thread).
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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.
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Not sure about highlight, at least it didn't go for our food.
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