Fox on NMW just after 5am.
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Wildlife highlight of the day
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Dirty stop iout fox
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Still no mice in the live trap. @gembo I bought a Finger of Fudge as suggested but then I ate it when work was annoying me.
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Ok it is wildlife but not exactly edinburgh!! Two seals " playing" in harbour, boddam, near Peterhead. Works not always a drag! Ps, how do I upload pics on here! From I phone .
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@splitshift you have to host them somewhere else, like photobucket then use the wee code links above (or just post the image url). Seals are always a highlight.
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Unhurt, you ate the fudge so no mice
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Rat crossing the towpath around Harrison Park East.
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@unhurt - Is your live trap one of those see-saw black tube things? I used them for a while & then found mice would be there for a day and when I finally released them the poor beasts would look like they'd got on the wrong end of the Spanish police. In the end I thought I better kill them outright then release them weakened and sick to be preyed on by kestrels and cats (especially torturing cats).
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I left some bait out for mice for my kill-them-instantly spring trap last week. Bread spread with peanut butter. Next morning bread was gone but they'd left lumps of peanut butter!
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Grebe in thankerton water this morning.
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An eel heading upstream in the River Avon. Can't think that I have ever seen a live eel before. Apparently we also heard the call of a green woodpecker a couple of times, but we didn't actually see one.
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When fishing as kid caught many Eels, always a disappointment, a slippery fish to throw back in, some people think they taste ok personally did not like the few tried, some people think they taste like dung
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Eels can apparently travel up to four miles overland between streams. Any more than four miles they catch the bus
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Smoked eel is lovely. I've never had smoked dung so I don't know if the comparison holds.
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Peanut butter stuck to the trap is my mouse-killing enticement of choice.
Lots of geese honking their way from A to B this morning.
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I have only ever enjoyed eel sushi when I ate it.
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I have only ever enjoyed eel sushi when I ate it.
What...else...have you done with it?
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Lots of geese in flight today. We also spent a good period on our ride stopped observing a Flock in a stubble field. Fascinating behaviours. Also some darker geese than the majority pfs plus a whiteish one (snow goose or mutant or cross?)
Also lots of displaying red grouse up on t'moor
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@Frenchy ha, that was badly worded! I have not taken the opportunity to eat eel sushi on every occasion when it was available so I am by no means its biggest fan, but I am yet to not enjoy it when I have eaten it.
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@Rosie - it is. Now wondering if it's better that nothing has ever been caught in it - I don't want to be a rodent Torquemada...
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@unhurt, if you use Cadbury fudge they die happy
Swan's Way update- ma and pa back together with only three of the bairns?
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@gembo how can you TELL though?
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@IWRATS Smoked eel is delicious.
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My first flock of long-tailed tits of the year. Incredibly loud contact calls as they worked their way through the trees in front of the Gallery of Modern Art,
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This would be a good highlight.
That confused deer wouldn't be confused for long.
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Dead mouse in snap trap that I'd baited with lumps of peanut butter. Now buried under a shrub.
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@rosie, dems da breaks
A Gromer in the sea at Bamburgh this afternoon. Beach was mobbed. Some hardy souls in surfing.
A Gromer is Bamburgh name for a cormorant.
Maybe some waxwings and a Lurvely view of a bullfinch on a bullrush. Three well combed highland coos in field too.
Bamburgh lovely as ever with more farrow and ball paint colours and dearer prices.
We used to come holiday here a lot when the sprogs were wee. Nice to come back with two of them now they are older.
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Don't know what it thinks it's going to find at the top of our window. Maybe we can use them to clear away the wee bits of vegetation growing in the crevices.
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