@jdanielp looks like only two cygnets left with their parents. Yesterday I saw a cygnet on its own around Ratho.
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Wait, isn't that GOOD luck? My old black cat Pest used to run back and forth in front of my feet every evening when I got back to the cottage. That was sometimes unlucky for him as it was often dark and he'd get stood on. Didn't seem to let this affect his future life choices...
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There is a big filthy cygnet in the middle of one of the National Galleries of North Britain's outdoor art works. It's a Jenks. The bird has wisely chosen to eschew the Paolozzis.
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@bill yeah... On the way to work yesterday I only saw one parent and one cygnet; on the way home and this morning I saw two and two like you. In comparison, at Heriot-Watt, two of last year's young are still hanging around despite there having been a new batch of eight (which dropped to six) this year. Last year's aren't allowed on the loch...
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It looks like the two hanger-on cygnets may finally have departed Heriot-Watt, maybe influenced by the demolition of the last of the student halls alongside the loch during recent weeks next to the area where they were hanging out.
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A comma and a red admiral while out *brambling at lunchtime.
*read "getting shredded but managing to pick a few brambles"
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The cygnet in the art pond utterly unperturbed by the Harris hawk being flown over and around it.
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Great morning for Wildlife- a robin, rabbits, squirrels, hundreds of dopey, noisy pheasants, Canada geese. I followed a hare which was chasing a flock of sheep through Hopetoun Estate, a large bird of prey being harried by 4 smaller birds near Abercorn, a swan pair with 4 cygnets at the loch in Dundas Castle Estate.
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Probably they know when they've reached the size of invincibility?
Gannets off Grobust Beach at the top end of Westray today, and more from the ferry back this afternoon, all flashing gloriously white in the sun. Thanks, work, this was a pretty good day.
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@unhurt "isn't that GOOD luck? "
i thought it was when they changed something in the Matrix?Posted 7 years ago # -
Kingfisher seen today but I'm in Croatia (where the cycling is great)
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Eagle in Ardnamurchan. Couldn't tell you what kind of eagle, but it was much bigger than a buzzard.
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Golden eagles which are mostly brown are a little bigger than a full sized buzzard. Sea eagles with the fan tail would be much bigger than a buzzard.
Seen both on mull, one right next to me )golden) the others much, much further way sea.
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Brown tailed, if I remember right, and not particularly close to the sea at the time, so probably golden.
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Yesterday not actually near woodland -
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Found in woodlands throughout England, Wales and Northern Ireland, increasingly found in Scotland
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Golden eagles which are mostly brown are a little bigger than a full sized buzzard.
Nearly twice the wingspan and four times as heavy. Eagles smash buzzards for fun.
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Poor old buzzards, if they did not look so freckly and just eat worms they could be eagles too.
Ok small eagles but still Eagles.
The Owls are going mental outside as I type.Scores on the doors - up to 79, 0000 pairs of buzzards, the largest still just under a foot smaller in wingspan than the smallest golden eagle, though they are quite similar
440 pairs of golden eagles, fifth largest eagle in world
37-44 pairs of sea eagles fourth largest eagle in the world.
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The 2015 survey gave 508 territorial pairs. On the up everywhere grouse aren't shot. Grouse seem to kill eagles by Vulcan mind powers.
I know that this year wasn't a good one - most of the nests my mate surveys failed, but them's the breaks.
Next time you are in the north I shall take you to Eagle Alley where buzzards, eagles and the white-tailed vulture can often be seen in the sky at the same time. It is a nice cycle ride but not on a road bike dude.
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@gembo "Seen both on mull, one right next to me )golden) the others much, much further way sea"
Reminds me of -
... These are small... but the ones out there are far away. Small... far away...
:-)
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Yes I was channellling Dougal.
The fantail on the sea eagle is also white if the size doesn't help as they are usually high up
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A bold wee mouse exploring my living room at breakfast time.
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@unhurt, I find mice never singular. The fudge from last year's trap has gone beside my washing machine. They will be back. Saw one in carubbers close popping up a drainpipe lunchtime yesterday
In swan news, one big juvenile out on the road the other day at Harrison park. The family have definitely split.
Black springs on Saturday there was an adult and two weans
Sunday before think possibly two whopper swans whooping
Swan newsflash over
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@gembo mine just won't go for the peanut butter I've tried in my (solo) live trap. I should be moving in six weeks so maybe I'll just hope they're quiet room-mates meanwhile? Bit of mystery rustling under the bed recently might have been mices.
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Try a cross section of cadburys fudge pushed into the trap. They die happy. I used to keep a bar in the fridge over the winter for this purpose. One night I caught my insomniac mother eating it.
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Fantastic Mr Fox today on Barnton avenue - 7am.
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@ Unhurt'n'Gembo - peanut butter - irresistible to the wee, sleeket, cowran, tim’rous beasties.
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Now we know where the swans have got to...
"A family of swans stopped the traffic as they tried to cross a busy dual carriageway in West Lothian... Police stopped the traffic to allow the birds to be rounded up before they used a pedestrian crossing to get across."
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@Iain McR so they say but they reject mine! Maybe I need to use the sugary stuff not the beardy middle class Real Foods kind?
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I'm with the mice - throw it straight in the bin. Get some JIF or similar, it's the hydrogenated veg oil they like and let's be honest, who doesnt ??
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I genuinely, honestly like the "healthy" stuff!* Though okay, if being spread on digestive biscuits before dipping them in a mug of tea then it has to be the crunchy, sticky, sugary kind.
(Smooth peanut butter is an abomination unto the lord - and unto me as well.)
(*Other secret shame: actually liking celery.)
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