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Wildlife highlight of the day

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  1. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    1) is larch.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  2. Cyclingmollie
    Member

    Yes and two is Scots Pine. Three is from the tree you can punch.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  3. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    Washingtonia?

    Posted 6 years ago #
  4. Greenroofer
    Member

    Sequoiadendron giganteum (wellingtonia)

    Posted 6 years ago #
  5. Cyclingmollie
    Member

    Yes, an avenue of Giant Sequoia.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  6. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    I wear Washington boots.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  7. amir
    Member

    You could punch any tree (though CATA* might be offended). But this one might hurt less.

    *Campaign Against Tree Abuse

    Posted 6 years ago #
  8. chdot
    Admin

    “You could punch any tree”

    Except in #PicardyPlace.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  9. Cyclingmollie
    Member

    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.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  10. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    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.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  11. Cyclingmollie
    Member

    I wear Washington boots is veering close to the "accidental autobiography title" zone.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  12. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    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...

    Posted 6 years ago #
  13. jdanielp
    Member

    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.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  14. unhurt
    Member

    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

    Posted 6 years ago #
  15. Cyclingmollie
    Member

    I'd read that!

    Posted 6 years ago #
  16. amir
    Member

    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 #
  17. unhurt
    Member

    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 #
  18. unhurt
    Member

    @amir - great minds saddened by same things

    Posted 6 years ago #
  19. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    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.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  20. unhurt
    Member

    ...is that why I never see buzzards in the hills just up above Balerno?

    Posted 6 years ago #
  21. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    There are buzzards in the Pentlands, but anywhere there's driven bird shoots is hostile to hooked beaks.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  22. Stickman
    Member

    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.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  23. unhurt
    Member

    Now very angry. I like ravens a lot. Miss hearing them down here.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  24. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    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.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  25. gembo
    Member

    I guess they must have a good idea who did this?

    Posted 6 years ago #
  26. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    @gembo

    I'd have thought the whole of Balerno would know?

    Posted 6 years ago #
  27. unhurt
    Member

    Pelican Blood: available for loan?

    Posted 6 years ago #
  28. Frenchy
    Member

    Pelican Blood: available for loan?

    In the infinite combinations of words possible, this wasn't one I expected to read. Strong autobiography title contender.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  29. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    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.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  30. unhurt
    Member

    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?

    Posted 6 years ago #

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