Took the mother round Inverleith Pond today - swan and a coot both sitting on nests so assume eggs already present.
@Frenchy alpacas are notoriously furious I believe*
*maybe
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What did you do to make them furious?
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Definitely coot? Not moorhen?
Camels are cross
Alpaca are angry
Llamas are yearning for The Andes?Posted 6 years ago # -
100% coot. They look nothing like moorhens!
@Frenchy probably implied their mothers were llamas or guanacos? A deadly alpaca insult that.
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“yearning for The Andes”
pining for the fjords surely.
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Yes but not alliterative in the way yearning for the Andes is
In shocking news A bittern has been spotted in the Pentlands, by my twitcher pal, for the first time since 1874? ( well according to the birds of the Pentalnds book but it was written in 1980s)
Ex Libris CHdot
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There seems to be a hawk living or hunting around the Carrick Knowe golf course,seen it a few times, today it was happily perched on a street light watching the course and people on the path. May have been hoping for a small enough child to come scooting by.
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Llamas yearning for the fire?
Llamas yearning for an answer?
Not only English has bad punsPosted 6 years ago # -
Seems to be quite hard to see eagles in Fife despite their vast size. There are hot spots though
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Llamas trans. lights, calls. I heard a woodpecker today.
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Carpintero (also carpenter)
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Heard a skylark out near Gladhouse on Saturday (see the "I had a lovely ride today" thread). Saw one on Sunday (but that only partly counts as I was running (on the way down from Maiden's Cleugh) at the time).
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Why did the pheasant cross the road? Just to make me brake, I think.
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@amir sea eagles?
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Skylark at Eskbank station the other day.
@jdanielp no, I saw a buzzard though
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Were they heading north or south? At the start of the month the ones my kids and I spotted were heading due south.
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Saw a massive skein heading SW on Sunday
More unusally I saw two Canada Geese swimming in the canal this morning. Not seen that before
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@gembo I too saw the geese. They were honking at something shortly after I passed by; possibly me. There was one year when a gosling joined the massive flotilla of cygnets that resulted from the abrupt disappearance of one pair of swan parents, the cygnets of which were adopted by another pair of swan parents which had their own cygnets. I wish I had taken photographs in retrospect. I seem to remember there being thirteen cygnets, two adult swans and one gosling swimming in lengthy formation most mornings that summer.
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One of the largest wildcats ever recorded in the world has been discovered by field workers in Aberdeenshire's Clashindarroch Forest.
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http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-43555314
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That is a puff piece for the people suing Andy Wightman for defamation over their offering of one square foot plots of land in return for money.
Last I heard no one was able to recover genetically pure Scottish wildcat material from hair traps anywhere and the species is likely lost to hybridisation with domestic cats.
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@chdot
they clearly have never seen one of my previous cats, who was enourmous - although i think he was 1.2m wide rather than long - mostly fur , and it wasnt for me overfeeding him, just a mahoosive cat!
i wish i had him as a kitten because i would have called him Jabba the Cat - instead it was Billy (big bones)!edit: when he jumped on the bed at 4am, you knew about it!
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A cormorant emerged from underwater/under the bank of the canal as I was about to cycle under the first bridge west of the Scott Russell Aqueduct this morning and started to frantically swim away from my scary bright green presence.
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Cormorant! That must be what I saw on Saturday on the canal, flapping along the water trying to get peace from pesky cyclists and runners in hi-viz. Twas black/dark with a goosey neck but not big enough to be a goose and had me puzzled.
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@Trixie likely. They aren't keen on human cormorant interaction.
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Hanging out to dry (or sunbathe)
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The last bridge taking a road over the canal (if you have been coming from Falkirk) is now the hangout of the Boroughmuir Smokers (two of them so far but quite persistent)
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@gembo did you cough theatrically, or indeed reflexively, as you passed by? Should they be classified as wildlife?
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I ducked the smoke
yes wildlife but tameable
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