Today I discovered you can reach my fat ball feeder from the top of the fence - if you're a crow. She ate quite a lot.
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Wildlife highlight of the day
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Pink rhubarb knobs appearing. Spring is coming.
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Crows are clever they hav a sort of frontal cortex (caudate nillipdinim, or something)
Spotted a Heron over Humbie this very mornng
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Snowdrops pushing their way through in our garden.
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Mr and Mrs Swan on the canal were being very affectionate this morning.
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Spotted swan in flight quite close by on Harlaw road when out for a constitutional. You hear the whuff whuff noise of the wings displacing the air too of course. Very nice brown buzzard on return from Humbie in the morning too.
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Three swans over Braid Hill as the setting sun painted them a rosy hew.
Buzzard made a purring/snoring sound at me on the beach at St Cyrus too. Never heard that before.
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On the canal, at Hermiston, A heron flew over a swan then landed on the reed bed on the south side. Nice action. Two swans further in to town and many merganser mergansers (Gosanders of course)
The blue bar tape of what looks like a complete racer in the water, just handlebars brealking the surface, if anyone has a grappling iron and fancies getting it out (wester hailes way), pedalled at furiously such that I had to go into vegetation and stop by one regular overtaking another regular on a blind bend at Longstone. I rolled my eyes in response to the seond regular rolling their eyes.
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Mallard on the WoL by Murrayfield riding the current sideways, not paddling (as far as I could tell), just letting himself be carried along.
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Bone chill relaxed.
...you were saying? It's baltic trending to polar bearish in Stoccbrycg tonight.
Hope the rats are huddled up all cosy.
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Aye, found myself riding home standing on the pedals to avoid the ingress of ambient air.
It'll freeze you neighbour's mucky glacier at least.
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As I was cautiously cycling over the slush on the towpath at the Scott Russell Aqueduct, I spotted bubbles rising to the surface of the canal water which gradually moved ahead of me. Halfway across, a comorant surfaced, took one look at me cycling alongside it and promptly dived under again.
I also spotted the marmaladey/white cat near the Bridge 8 Hub which I was able to greet when I walked in on a snowy morning earlier in the year. It appears to enjoy the snow.
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two big hairy dogs out for a walk on the WoL path this morning wearing Cat Suits
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A rare spot of a cormorant on the towpath side of the canal, albeit down on the floating platform at Wester Hailes. It looks perturbed about the fact that I was cycling past quite close but didn't take to the water.
Prior to that, I found myself having to come to a halt as some ducks which were investigating the far side of the towpath at Lochrin Basin suddenly decided that they wanted to return to the water as I was approaching them. This seemed to amuse some of the cyclists heading towards me.
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Fox on the roof.
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Standing above us on the other side of the corrugated skylight upstairs at the Bike Station no less.
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Is it Muddy?
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or fantastic ?
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Might have been wearing gloves?
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Mr Fimm saw what he thinks was a mink (rather than an otter which was his first assumption) on the canal out beyond Ratho.
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@fimm, quite likely. More furry, smaller and angrier than an otter?
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Couple of crows on the street this morning taking a deep and noisy interest in what I assumed was something edible but turned out to be an abandoned black fleece glove. I think it reminded them of a dead crow?
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Crows in Stockbridge more stupid than other crows?
Swan on the canal last week getting something from discarded carry out carton floating on the water. Her breakfast it would seem.
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Tawny owl calling for owl-on-owl action in Inch Park. Signs of spring I tells ya.
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owl-on-owl action
and currently topping the "accidental autobiography title" leaderboard....
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A cormorant stood by the side of the loch at Heriot-Watt.
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Some cones I found today. The first two I can id but for the third I had to look at the tree to be sure. Anyone manage all three from memory?
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