From the positioning of the moorhen, it's very possible it got hit by a bike. :(
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Wildlife highlight of the day
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On a short fence post inspecting the ground beneath - a Massive buzzard like a cross between a golden eagle and rod Stewart's hair circa 1971 Faces era ( Ronnie Lane from that band has a song Je t'ai laisse sur Le Debris, - I left you on the debris, of the Sunday morning market, you was searching through the odds and ends, you was looking for a bargain. Immense, the YouTube slideshow for that track debris by faces has slideshow of old London with an inexplicable yet great photo of Jack from Chinatown with his nose all bandaged up). You can't spot Rod the Buzzard tonight unless you are out that way (watch out for the midges if you are) but you sure can listen to Debris by Faces.
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Amazing wildlife highlight report from a friend - he was in the cafe at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland yesterday and an oversized rat scampered past. He, no lie, managed to capture it in a cello case but it escaped again. Panic reigned, up to and including people stood on chairs squealing!
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Hordes of cute ducklings bustling around in the sea between White Sands / Barnes Ness lighthouse on Saturday. Shelducks and Eider Ducks we thought. Must have been several families all together being supervised by a couple of adults.
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Hedgehog in the back garden this morning, which probably wasn't very happy at being disturbed by our dog. Luckily there was a fence between them.
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A rat in a cello case? Figures.
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Walked passed that very conservatoire this morning but saw no rats nor cello cases.
Did see the burnt out shell of the art school. Big shame but not Grenfell
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A handsome wee red squirrel between Feshie Bridge and Loch an Eilean. Co-spot with @morningsider
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Crested tits in Inshriach, a male sparrowhawk scouting through the tops of the venerable Scots pines in Glenfeshie first thing in the morning.
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A buzzard soaring above Craiglockhart Pond or thereabouts as spotted from the canal towpath at Meggetland a little while ago.
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Rough afternoon much improved by this news from Newfoundland & Labrador:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/arctic-fox-rescue-iceberg-1.4720525"We seen something on the ice. Wasn't sure what it was," Russell told CBC's Labrador Morning. "So we got up closer to it. It was a little fox, Arctic fox. And he wasn't very big. He was soaking wet, and the gulls was trying to pick at him."
Extra points for problem-solving:
"The crew tried to pull him from the mushroom-shaped iceberg tip, but the skittish fox wouldn't let them close. So they used the boat to knock the ice pan down and fished the fox from the water with a net."
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Two close encounters with deer absolutely pelting it across the road in front of me- one in Fife yesterday between Lochgelly and Kirkcaldy and one in Dalmeny Estate this morning.
Both were doing IMO > 20 mph and were well built, not like the bambi-style ones I usually see. A collision would have been life-altering for us both...
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superlative iceberg fox rescue scenario
bookmarked for future use
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A small toad on the canal towpath which I hopefully avoided.
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this week's daily regulars in the bax garden:
4 goldfinch (3 more on occasion)
1 goldfinch juvenile
4 greenfinch
2 greenfinch juveniles (one a bit sickly, worried about this one)
1 bullfinch (very regal)
2 chaffinch (pair) (male very regal)
1 great tit
2 blue tits
1 blue tit juvenile - 3 missing in action :(
1 coal tit (joint favourite)
1 robin (joint favourite)
1 wren
2 thrush
2 blackbirds (pair of cool dudes)1 collared dove
too many wood pigeons (father dougal is ok tho)3 hedgehogs (young dylan is the fave)
magpies, starlings and seagulls don't count
sparrows count but i can't id them
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@bax, good list, bit of a sparrow blindspot? House sparrow easy to ID, flying in and out of my neighbour's rafters.
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yeah but do you know them as individuals, gembo?
they all look the same to me
a bit avian-racist i admit
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ok at a guess
- 2 house sparrows
- one tree sparrow (jury's out, but a bit more exotic)
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thirsty young dylan in the yard last night
(apeman infrared wildlife cam)
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finches in the area (aforementioned sickly juve greenfinch top left)
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healthier greenfinch
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@bax
Lovely demonstration of the subtlety of the finch beak in its many guises. Positively Darwinian.
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all the young juves, carry the news
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young greenfinch thug, in my yard last weekend
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took this one in disko bay last summer
ok, showing off, will stop now
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Great pics Bax, the tree sparrow, smaller and neater than the house sparrow. Take your point about the individuals all looking the same.
The hawfinch I saw last winter had a powerful beak.
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Pair of Ring Ouzels just north of the summit of Cairnwell road
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Those photos are great Bax. That whale must have been an awesome thing to see.
@amir, I'm sorry I missed the Ring ousels. In my exhausted state I misinterpreted your excited gesticulations as the onset of heat induced madness.
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Onset? That was much earlier
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