1) is larch.
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Wildlife highlight of the day
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Yes and two is Scots Pine. Three is from the tree you can punch.
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Washingtonia?
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Sequoiadendron giganteum (wellingtonia)
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Yes, an avenue of Giant Sequoia.
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I wear Washington boots.
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You could punch any tree (though CATA* might be offended). But this one might hurt less.
*Campaign Against Tree Abuse
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“You could punch any tree”
Except in #PicardyPlace.
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I think you could punch any tree
Indeed. Anyway, here's the rest of the things I found. One is bike related. Edit: all three might be if you liked a pint and a smoke when you were out on your safety bicycle last century.
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if you liked a pint and a smoke when you were out on your safety bicycle
Rarely has a life well lived been so neatly summed up.
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I wear Washington boots is veering close to the "accidental autobiography title" zone.
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Chapter One
When I were a lad you could punch any tree and have a pint and a smoke when you were out on yer bike...
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I embarrassed a goosander this morning whilst it was being encouraged by its mate to 'climb aboard'; upon spotting me cycling by on the towpath, it swam away instead of towards the invitation. I hope I was just a temporary distraction.
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Chapter One
The Tree
A good pipe - Owl on owl action - The satisfaction of the safety bicycle - Pine cone interlude - Washington boots - Pink rhubarb knobs - A goosander, interrupted
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I'd read that!
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Really sad news
https://raptorpersecutionscotland.wordpress.com/2018/02/15/golden-eagle-fred-disappears-7-miles-from-scottish-parliament/
To think an eagle so close to Edinburgh. If this was a result of an illegal action, I hope the perpetrator (and their boss) is racked with shame.Posted 6 years ago # -
Ta!
Wildlife lowlight of the worst kind:
https://raptorpersecutionscotland.wordpress.com/2018/02/15/golden-eagle-fred-disappears-7-miles-from-scottish-parliament/amp/
Black Hill above Balerno. [eta posted while amir was posting too]Posted 6 years ago # -
@amir - great minds saddened by same things
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Whoever killed that eagle should consider their position as a human being.
They probably thought it was a buzzard when they opened fire, but that changes nothing.
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...is that why I never see buzzards in the hills just up above Balerno?
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There are buzzards in the Pentlands, but anywhere there's driven bird shoots is hostile to hooked beaks.
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I'm in real danger of breaching Rule 2, especially after watching the Chris Packham film about this. A merlin's nest on the edge of this moor was shot out, and two ravens' nests on the edge of this moor have been destroyed recently.
The usual excuse about shooting bringing work to deprived areas doesn't really hold water in Edinburgh.
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Now very angry. I like ravens a lot. Miss hearing them down here.
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Merlins eat meadow pipits and dragonflies. There is literally no point in a gamekeeper killing them.
Most of the areas we're talking about are deprived precisely because of shooting gobbling up land into various opaque and immortal vehicles. No other activity can get a look-in.
I may have to read Chris Freddi's Pelican Blood again. Very cathartic.
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I guess they must have a good idea who did this?
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@gembo
I'd have thought the whole of Balerno would know?
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Pelican Blood: available for loan?
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Pelican Blood: available for loan?
In the infinite combinations of words possible, this wasn't one I expected to read. Strong autobiography title contender.
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Pelican Blood: Loaned, can't remember to whom.
List of people with business having a gun in that field at 10h00 on a Monday morning in January can't be a long one.
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Hmm. City of Edinburgh Libraries appear to have it - but for some reason as "reference only" at Portobello.
("Description:
Bird watching Fiction.")Must investigate...
As should the police wildlife crime people, you might think?
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