Shellfish? @iwrats, did you say shellfish (spoot.?)
Which two London train stations are named after shellfish? (Warning - cracker joke)
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Wildlife highlight of the day
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Pickakrilly?
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St Pancrabs?
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Nice tries, but no it is
Charing Crustacean
And
Kings Crustacean
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Eeling Broadway
(not a shellfish though)
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@gembo
Spoot, aye. Last time I had them was here in a sherry reduction. Oh my word. They look obscene but taste heavenly the poor things.
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Waxwings in Victoria Park and the large trees on Newhaven Road, near Ferry Road junction. There's a flock of at least 25-30, chirping away and flying short circuits to the rowan tree for sustenance. I took some photos but I don't have Flickr so can't post them I'm afraid!
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I doubt this will work:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/155495003@N04/31600967077/in/dateposted-ff/Posted 5 years ago # -
But maybe this will....
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7925/31600967077_a671f08eed_z_d.jpgPosted 5 years ago # -
Both work fine
Just about right size for putting in img tags -
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A young peregrine trying to rouse waders to flight on Aberlady bay by stooping on them. They were too fly to take to the wing so the falcon retreated to a rock in the middle of the frozen mudflats and made itself all big and fluffy.
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Last seen west of Livingston, could be anywhere by now
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@diarmid occasionally of this parish had a spectacular spot a few inches abov his head just after recounting a lack of bird life on his walk. He may post about it..
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Watched a golden buzzard take off in a field near Woolfords today. Scruffy but it landed on a fence post Aquila like. Holy Roman Emperor Golden Eagle of a Buzzard
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Today's buzzard count in west Lothian and south Lanarkshire - 3. A new one spotted from the the brand spanking new Tarmac on the road to Harburn Golf Course from Murieston Village in Livi. Similar grey to the wood of the trendy A frame houses on that rod. It is agreat wee road. The honey buzzard again and then a brown one on distant fence post near Carnwath.
I have been reading the ultra trendy H is for Hawk by Helen McDonald and thinking this is just a retread of Goshawk by TH White. But then Helen devotes several short chapters to old TH White. A lonely and probably unpleasant man who wrote brilliant books.
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Yesterday, facing into a stiff breeze.
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just a retread of Goshawk by TH White
I read that last week. Guy's a bit creepy.
Had a sparrowhawk smash through the garden at breakfast time. Man, those birds can fly.
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TH White creepy. Definite. Many issues. Not good bet as schoolteacher. The falconers at the time gave a one sentence review of Goshawk. "Now any would be falconer knows how not to do it" I am paraphrasing from Mc Donald's book. I am now at the bit where she takes her hawk for a walk around Cambridge. She says go back 400 years, this would be perfectly normal.
I am happy to lend the book, will be finished soon, can go in the crate with le cidre?
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Ah cheers, gave that to my old man, he gave it back along with TH White.
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Ah I see, your old man made the link. Once and future King then? As read by Magneto in his plastic prison
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A fox on the towpath between Edinburgh and Ratho this morning.
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A sparrowhawk flying along the hedgerow ahead of our Car Club car between Hillend and Easter Bush on Sunday.
A fox casually crossing Lauriston Place from Heriot's to the future Futures Institute on Monday early evening.
The Kingsknowe Rat diving into the canal as I approached a bridge in Wester Hailes on Wednesday evening.
Either a kestrel or a perhaps a sparrowhawk being harassed by a seagull above Meggetland this morning.
No herons on the canal this morning, but there had been on most other days this week. There was also one in a tree by The Loch at Heriot-Watt at Wednesday lunch time.
No kingfishers.
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No kingfishers
This is the subtext of all of @Iwrats' wildlife highlight of the day posts, no?
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@unhurt
If I have a goal as a wordsmith it is the evocation of absence. The kingfisher-shaped hole in a life.
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Raven eating dead rat, towpath this morning
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@gembo The Kingsknowe Rat?
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I forgot to mention the black and white cat that I spotted on Monday looking a little uncertain about being close to the top of one of the mid-sized trees on the far bank of the canal opposite the WHEC outdoor sports pitches. It was being heckled by two magpies perched on branches above it.
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OK, forget the fox. My way back was a lot more exciting with snowdrops, majestic heron, Polish people of Wester Hailes enjoying some outdoor beers..
However the definite highlight of the highlights was a couple of swans west of Ratho making their way through a thin layer of ice on the canal. Well, one of them was breaking the ice and the other closely followed. The weirdest thing was the sound that made: imagine a large thin sheet of metal which you would start moving up and down to create waves. Never seen anything like that.
icebreaker_img by Bill Harriman, on FlickrAnd here is a bit of a video of that:
icebreaker_video by Bill Harriman, on Flickr
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@bill
Excellent wildlife.
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"The kingfisher-shaped hole in a life."
It's only a matter of time before a lack of kingfisher in the trees of the Figgate Park is offset by a kingfisher-sized increase the the volume of one of the otters.
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