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We've seen quite a few hares this summer.
Those Drumochter hills are definitely ones for the hard-core Munro-baggers - or so I thought until someone told me that they are good ski-touring hills. We were up in the cloud but we had a good run all the same.
Quite a selection of roadkill on this weekend's 200, including a mole, two owls and several hares. No deer or badgers this time.
Bald eagles along the shores of Bonne Bay.
An ex-shrew or vole or similar small rodent at Meggetland.
Not much buzzard action at Heriot-Watt this summer, but I returned from lunch just now to see four buzzards soaring and calling above The Lyell Centre.
Full on hydraulic disc brake action last night on the Russell Rd zig-zags, all to save a wee moose that scurried across the path. Cost me some tyre rubber, that wee blighter did.
A squirrel crossing the towpath away from the canal at Kingsknowe and a stoat crossing towards the canal, then pouncing onto something in the foliage, before hurriedly crossing back just west of Gogar Station Road Bridge.
I have only been spotting a swan family of five cygnets on the canal this week so assume that the original family has headed west again and that this is either swan family two or three rather than one of the cygnets from the original swan family having perished while I was away on holiday.
@amir
Great picture.
A pair of fishing ospreys over Newman Sound in Terra Nova National Park.
Normal Edinburgh highlights to resume from Sunday (woe!).
Still no mooses!
Hen harrier having fun near Tarbrax in the north westerly, all square wings and up turned ends. Oh wait was the buzzard pretending.
Badger carnage en route to Carnwath some of it eviscerated
Beautiful red admiral butterfly in the late September sunshine dans le jardin
Red admiral colours would make a good cycle jersey
Small white just fluttered by as I was typing too.
More crickets watching me fit the greenhouse door. A snail on the kale in the sink.
@wingpig - Snail on the kale, that not a Julia Donaldson book?
Spotted sparrow hawk in dive formation swooping through the gardens of Balgreen as I was heading to a fiendishly difficult blind wine tasting
@gembo
This one is not bad. Il est gouleyant. Il a de la cuisse, il attaque sèchement le palais, il manque pas de retour. Tu peux servir.
Took the kids up their first Munros at the weekend above Glenshee. Given the recent news, it was good to see ~8 mountain hares running around.
@iwrats, I'll take six. Was heartened at the blind tasting I could identify my Pinot Noir from my Gigondas
The Shetland chap was up above Loch Awe on the telly tonight. He was suggesting The Cailleach made loch awe due to foorgetfulness
A cormorant (or cormorants) hanging out on the far side of the canal a little west of the Scott Russell Aqueduct last night and at Wester Hailes this morning – I was overtaken by it in flight as I cycled past WHEC shortly afterwards.
He was suggesting The Cailleach made loch awe due to forgetfulness
Ben Cruachan, looming over Loch Awe, is reputed to be her HQ.
Aye he was up that Ben. He found a lot of celtic pictish type squiggles in the rocks, but no sign of the wee stone folk. The show is technically about lochs of which we have many.
Inordinate number of low flying bats on The Pinkhill Path this evening.
Not sure if more than usual? I generally commute a couple hours earlier or later so perhaps I usually miss #peakbat flying time along this bat superhighway!
20 swallows in field near Auchengray amassing to feed prior to the Grand Depart
A seal perched up on a rock by the shore to the north of the Forth. Also, what I would like to think was a basking shark, or possibly some kind of small whale, about to pass under the Tay Bridge.
There was a big, energetic seal sealing it up right in the middle of Aberdeen harbour on Sunday afternoon. Apparently unfazed by a massive ferry heading past...
Saw a lovely hare sitting by a Christmas tree plantation on the way to Kinloss on Saturday afternoon. Size of a small deer almost.
Holiday wildlife highlight from a couple of weeks back: a small gang of wild caribou, including a male with a huge head of antlers, hanging at Point Riche .
Stork descending noisily into Bagni DI Lucca. I was very glad of this as I had been mansplaining about the roofs of the chimneys being designed to stop stork nesting. Like a heron of the non-silent variety.
Hundreds of large, furry caterpillars in the Pentlands. A family of at least five buzzards at North Esk Reservoir.
Just heard a bunch of geese honking overhead out of the window.
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