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1 beaver.
Otter family.
Tall heron looking thing.
Many turtles, some snapping, some not.
Large orange fish.Posted 6 years ago # -
Ah yes, or presumably not Edinburgh then.
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There are no large orange fish in Edinburgh. Pass it on.
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Thanks to @jdanielp i realised that there are two swan families on the canal now -- both with six cygnets but, if I am correct, the cygnets in the Original Wester Hailes Swan Family are older than the ones in New Wester Hailes Swan Family.
An update for @jdanielp: this morning the Original Wester Hailes Swan Family was back at Wester Hailes while the New Wester Hailes Swan Family was at Ratho.
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@bill the original swan family is keeping busy; I spotted them in the reeds just east of Slateford Aqueduct at 9ish today, whereas when I saw them last night they were out by the Bridge 8 Hub. I wonder if the families met yesterday? That might explain why the new family has headed out west.
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I saw mum dad and six cygnets heading east about 8.15 this morning. Polwarth area. Sixth cygnet was outwith the parental bracket so that one is going to be trouble if it survives.
Confused? You will be in next week's episode of Swan
(Ref to late 70s American sitcom called Soap)
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Last night a posum running along the road. This morning a much flatter posum 'sleeping' on the road we had to explain to our 2yr old.
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I like this talk of swans.
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@iwrats Swan's Way
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Let's start a cygnet library.
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@iwrats Hardee Har
A pal in Dublin keeps posting about some tragic swans that build a nest on a rubbish dump at the docks. Every year all the cygnets die. This year three eggs laid and abandoned maybe due to low water level linked to the drought. Now another two eggs have been laid about three feet from the abandoned eggs.
Our tales of the canal bank have more cheer, although there will be loss always at the back of my mind when posting. Bit like the solstice next week being the beginning of the end of summer.
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there will be loss always at the back of my mind when posting
I find abandoned things like the canal both comforting and melancholy.
Abuse of power and trust on the other hand I find enraging. If I ever find someone engaging in this activity they will have an accident.
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Who collects eggs now? You cannot exactly display your collection. dirty.
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@gembo
If this is one of the Glenfeshie estate pairs it could be a complex tale. That estate prizes them but is not universally popular. I shall enquire of my eagle friend.
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@iwrats, always good to have a friend who is an eagle
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Coal tit perched on the little window for opening to let out pasta water steam (or whatever) just outside my kitchen this morning. It was looking in for some time before it spotted me and flew away. Cute. Think juvenile or more stupid member of that species?
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@gembo
Yes, first brood is fledged. Family of coal tits being shown round the garden by the adults today, all looking into every hole they could find. (This is what we do right? we look in holes for spiders to eat until the sparrowhawk crushes the life out of us...)
Mystified and pleased to learn that Gembo Towers has colander windows?
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all the young juves flocking on the hawthorn / birch today
big shout out to the visiting chiff chaff
quadruple goldfinch drenched stoical on the nygar feeder
rusty the robin even brought his long-suffering partner along
rare indeed for her to be allowed a day out, i can tell you
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Red Kite above the A701 near Dumfries.
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@bax, all the young juves carry the news
@iwrats, steam out the windae, water down the drain, pasta in the colander,
Just put this drain distance bck in the pan, add chopped tomato, mozarella, olives, basil, artichokes, if flush, black pepper, stir it all together and enjoy
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If they ever offer me a last meal before the hangman's axe I shall swither.
Artichokes or asparagus? Probably artichokes - the vegetable embodiment of a life well lived. Always shared, lots of mess.
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Yeah Monsieur IWRATS, I like artichokes that way too but in the former recipe I used the wee pack next to the olives in Scotmid
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Excellent bat action along the path at the bottom of Craiglockhart Woods just now. It was still bright enough to easily spot the bats but not too bright to perturb them. I can't think I have experienced bats flying at then around me quite that close before.
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I also observed the Craiglockhart Pond swan family dabbling in the water for a while until one of the cygnets suddenly decided that it wanted to be at the far end of the pond as soon as possible; it set off noisily in that direction which resulted in the entire family following.
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Midges very bad for humans ar dusk last night. Good for bats though
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Are there bullfinches along the canal? A wee birdie with very red feathers flew right across me just east of Ratho. Roughly chaffinch sized but redder.
Also saw Wester Hailes swan family, a duck family snoozing about 3 inches off the path and a very dead think-it-was-a-moorhen.
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@Trixie I spotted a bullfinch at Wester Hailes earlier this year at some point although I haven't spotted them routinely by the canal. Sad news about the moorhen.
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