I just spotted a lone swallow repeatedly dive-bombing The Loch at Heriot-Watt. Presumably there must be some winged insects available to catch but it may just be having fun.
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Wildlife highlight of the day
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Spring twenty nineteen
The channel is fortified
Will swallows still cross?Posted 6 years ago # -
They'll be quite cross if they can't.
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@IWRATS bleak, but thanks anyway. I won't swallow Brexit.
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@jdanielp
Haikus must have a seasonal reference and a melancholy tone to be valid. Them's the rules. I shall begin drafting an existential moonscape for the first swift.
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I have a sudden urge to write cheerful haiku with no seasonal references at all.
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Don't you mean:
I now have an urge
To write cheerful haikus that
Don't mention seasons.?
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This used to be for
Wildlife highlights of the day
Now it's just haikusPosted 6 years ago # -
There's a haiku thread
Somewhere else on the forum
For people who know how to write haikusPosted 6 years ago # -
the thread drifts, and
curiosity
is indulged. order returns.Posted 6 years ago # -
Yesterday I saw
Flying in the sky above
Fifty or so geesePosted 6 years ago # -
A sparrowhawk was
in our garden and I see
no sparrows nowPosted 6 years ago # -
Where are the swallows?
Just silent barns and carports -
Winter lingering.Posted 6 years ago # -
I do not have a
Wildlife Highlight of the day
It is far too dreichPosted 6 years ago # -
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Part of a Scottish castle has been closed due to the presence of a "very angry badger".
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Luring it out with cat food and honey
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All the wee birds singing their hearts out in the spring sunshine.
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Conversely, this is one of the saddest wildlife / nature related things I've read in a while. We are failing these young folk.
"Poems, especially, often rely on natural imagery to which my students haven’t been exposed. Take the line from a GCSE set poem that describes a son becoming independent from his father “like a winged seed loosened from its parent stem”. I had to bring in plants to demonstrate what a stem was. Another poem depicts a frightened woman “flying like a hare”. My students (quite reasonably, they thought) pointed out that hair doesn’t fly.
These are the pupils who feel comfortable speaking up. How many children sit silently baffled when we read a poem about swans but feel too self-conscious to ask what a swan is?"
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It's sad to hear how
Disconnected from nature
Youngsters are these daysPosted 6 years ago # -
I turned my eye skyward
On Braid Hill
But no swallow
Did I seePosted 6 years ago # -
Jackdaws going chak chak as they swing on the bird feeder.
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Any poetic responses to the marauding Botanic herring gull that just tried for my cheese scone?
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Re ignorance of nature - I was reading some old copies of Punch - around 1910. Loads about wildflowers with the assumption that your average suburbanite would know their names.
Sad, sad, sad.
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I detest haikus
Iambic pentameter
Drums to English wordsPosted 6 years ago # -
On lymphoy today twice as avoided the WoL path Ultitrec tho people are walking on it despite not being ready. Quite a bounce they tell me. Will need major culver ting and horse ban if it is to last many joggers will like it.
Anyway wildlife, one llama, many thelwell ponies, lot of sheep one prezbalski's horse, one huge Raven, one grey pointy rook, farmer John up and down several times
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Some leftover twigs...
...from the new pigeon nest in our bay tree:
There's an old one a bit higher up, just below where I took the top of the tree off a couple of years ago, but it evidently wanted back fresh one.
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First yellowhammer I've heard this year. Plus a couple of skylarks in a lark-off
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Swallows swooping
Cheeky wee sparras on the tables
Lots of Lovely brown goats and some equally lovely brown cows
One crane
Some sheep that look like bedlington terriers
Three Iberian Eagles
Thousands upon thousands of MAMILS
Plenty of women cycling tooHoliday post from Mallorca (hotel which thinks it is a sports country club spa thingy but is really Butlins for cyclists only has wifi in reception, hence no posts in the mornings)
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There was a heron on the canal just west of the City Bypass this morning for the first time in a few weeks.
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A man was looking intently at something down in the river through the railings on Saunders Street so I went over to see what it was. Turned out to be a sparrowhawk having a bath!
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