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A cat on the path between Leven Terrace and Melville Drive last night and one (I think it was the white and marmalde cat that I spotted during winter) running towards/past me on the canal towpath near the Bridge 8 Hub this morning.
The canal swan family appeared to have been overnighting in the garden of the hot tub and fake animal house.
A buzzard being harrassed by a crow above Heriot-Watt.
@bax the spirit of Mark E Smith lives on
crow's feet are ingrained on my face
and i'm living too late
try to wash the black off my face
but it's ingrained
and i'm living too late
i'm super sad sweet sad
line is cracked
vision gone
i'm living too long
Or
Last week after Dynasty
I had crow's feet under my eyes
Paid two days for getting high
The canal swan family swam over to greet me as I stopped to admire them shortly after departing from The Counter.
@jdanilep
The swans know it is your birthday and wish you well. So do the kingfishers but they are otherwise engaged.
Probably the kingfishers were concerned you would show up and had to go to ground.
The barn owl who was swooping around Bonally reservoir ten minutes earlier we'd been eye to eye on the dam.
Here it is surveying my bike. (heavy crop of a phone shot from some distance, just to the right of my dry bag)
Owl flying very low over my bike. Mid right. Its there honest. Trying to use a phone camera from a distance and cropping heavily.... by Steven, on Flickr
(might need to click through again)
@steveo nice!
@steveo
Wonderful! (Tawny owl I think.)
Good shot! But it's definitely not a barn owl, they are very pale, basically white underneath, and quite distinctive. It is, as IWRATS says, most likely to be a tawny owl:
@steveo coooool.
@chdot pictures as promised - though all wildlife shown is invertebrate, there were as noted above Many Deer, and also bonxies, gannets, common sandpiper, many curlews, hunners of larks, a maybe-an-eagle?, dipper, turnstone, oystercatcher, grey & pied wagtails, arctic skua from the boat, gulls (various) terns (sandwich & arctic/common - not sure which), ravens (unculled), hoodie crows, redshank, shovelers, eider, tufted ducks, cormorants,a great northern diver (off Rerwick in Orkney) and the usual woodland birds whenever trees were present.
Three donkeys at dolphinton (or was it three dolphins at Donkeytown?). Then six donkeys including foals at newbigging. and two emus in same field. Lot of black sheep (well black lambs with long grey haired sheep) near elsrickle. Crows mobbing buzzard back and forth across the Whang. Clydesdale and foal at Ainville some sad roadkill not really highlights so will omit.
Three Donkeys Outside Dolphinton, Lanarkshire?
@jdanielp, ypu and your movies
Anthocharis cardamines
Lovely
Heard curlews, dueling skylarks and a far-off cuckoo up Harbour Hill this evening.
Some deer eating out of my hand.
A fly-by the Lyell Building by a swift as I was going for lunch.
A stoat, several times on Sunday. Unusually bold came within 3m. Pretty cool, about 30cm nose to tail.
Canal swans - I, like many others, counted the cygnets and was relieved that they still numbered six.
@rosie, brace yourself for further reductions.
@chdot nice 'fly
This fine boy came and sat on the washing line while I was eating my toast. Had a good study of the garden and hopped onto the wall.
Can anyone identify it?
Peregrine?
Sparrowhawk. I think you're luring them.
It is of course the elusive male sparrowhawk, which has now started to manifest itself to me. Four this year.
It seemed to be lured to the washing. Tee-shirts and trews?
Saying "male" when you described him as a fine boy seemed unnecessary? Maybe it wants a sparrowsock.
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