That reminds me - spotted one of those on a tree on MMW after PY on Friday.
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Wildlife highlight of the day
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The cormorant on canal towpath yesterday was sunning its panache - such was the majesty of its plume I would say a argali Cormorant
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Fink I spotted a swift just there from attic window
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@gembo
Given the paucity of swallows I must urge caution on the swift spot. Would you be terribly upset if I delayed the prize haiku, even though the attic location makes for excellent material?
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@IWRATS - you are correct to urge caution - the bird was on its todd, quite high up no discernible swallow tail nor any swooping but i was not convinced hence use of the word Fink.
did consult manuals etc.
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My colleague reports
Fluffy ducklings on The Loch
I'll look tomorrowPosted 6 years ago # -
Off to the park to see if I can find any balls o duck fluff myself & check on the status of the swan eggs. (She was only sat on three the other week - since only one of last year's nine eggs made it to swan-hood maybe she's feeling a bit uncommitted to the whole process?)
@gembo, @Iwrats swallows have been seen in Orkney for at least a week or two...
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Swan fast asleep but a coot sitting on five or six hungry little red and orange hairdo'd chicks. (The heron is watching though...)
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Saw the solitary soaring bird from attic, is quite small, tail still not long but I think swallow. Must be wondering where its pals are
Also spotted ground frost for folk to wash their faces in. Happy 1st May
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Liking chateau gembo's Ceremony of the Attic Swiftwatch and subtle evocation of May Day.
I have taken the day off work and will parade down Gilmerton Road with all the other Programmer/Analyst/Change Managers.
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Bit of an eggshell outside the back door. Presumably belongs to the pigeon nesting in the bay tree.
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@unhurt
Perhaps this is what @gembo spotted from his attic in the far, distant north?
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Four ducklings with their mother on The Loch at Heriot-Watt and a swan on the nest on the island as I walked to lunch. As I walked back from lunch, the swan was swimming around the island (behaviour which my colleague had also spotted earlier today); this doesn't seem like a positive sign. Also, as I was passing some foliage near the Student Union building, a rabbit AND a mouse came scurrying out of the nearest bush to me and scurried along the path before disappearing into separate bushes further along... Perhaps they had startled one another before being startled by me?
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Bird seed stand-off on my patch of astroturf between a slightly scaffy but determined grey squirrel and a mahoosive lesser black backed gull.
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Roe deer running full tilt across the woodland path this morning on walk to Dunbar station.
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Two ladies attempting to feed a couple of eager looking goosanders at Wester Hailes, but seagulls kept swooping in to steal the bread before they could reach it. I then spotted The Kingsknowe Rat investigating the towpath next to the railway bridge.
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3 spiders in the bathroom. Not worth noting except that my arachnophobe flatmate calls for me to deal with them. She is a thoroughly excellent flatmate in every way except for her plaintive cries of spider fear interrupting my chill out sessions.
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@jdanielp
Long live the Kingsknowe Rat! Why did the ladies feed the goosanders but not the rat?
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@IWRATS they weren't in the vicinity of The Kingsknowe Rat so maybe even aren't aware of its existence?! They were mostly just feeding the seagulls in any case. I'm not as sure why The Kingsknowe Rat wasn't making more effort to claim its share when free food was being made available though.
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In truth I am finishing breakfast and actually laughing out loud that we have created the Kingsknowe Rat.
I wonder if Kirkpatrick Macmillan foresaw that his invention would lead to the conception of an urban ur-rat by a group of its future users?
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@Gembo could maybe be a house martin? The wings are the key with swifts, that and the screaming.
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Hares, lambs, larks, peewits, etc. Benefits of an extended commute (including Harlaw over to Glencorse without falling off! Exciting!) Also spotted a couple of wild(ly fit looking) cyclo-cross types.
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The wings are the key with swifts
Disturbing implication that I've been imagining wings on all other birds up till now.
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The peewit is the key with peewits.
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Be aware all that CCE Swiftwatch™ starts today for it is the 4th of May.
As ever haiku for the first spot with context unless it's @Rosie in which case it shall be a palinode in the form of a sonnet.
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Right folks, no posting before @Rosie if you see a swift.
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Saw two swifts/swallows/house martins over Gilmore Place today. Forked tailed things anyway. Couldn't hear their calls.
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Lovely pair of wheatears on Braid Hill.
CCE Swiftwatch™ status: negatory.
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