@bill nice action! I hope they're taking turns because that looks tiring.
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Wildlife highlight of the day
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@IWRATS @jdanielp thank you!
@jdanielp it looked like it was just one swan doing all the hard work! It reminded me of a situation when you are the first person making path through deep-ish snow. It's a lot of work for that person but to everyone behind the progress feels very slow.
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Fieldfare in a field on the west Lothain south Lanarkshire borders. Seems to be faring well. I do like a bird from the thrush family. Also received a postcard from my bird spotting pal who has emigrated to New Zealand. Postcard was from the subantartic islands where he had gone to eradicate pigs and dogs and cats. He points out Balerno is nearer the North Pole than the subantartic islands are to the South Pole.
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If I'm not much mistaken an owl and a fox are having a fight outside.
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Perhaps it heard what the owl did with the pussycat in the fox's pea-green boat.
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The owl and the pussycat went to sea
In the fox's pea green boat
They took some champagne and plenty of cocaine
Which they did with a five pound note?Who won?
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On reflection it may have been rough interspecies sex. Interesting to see if the owl lays ox eggs or the fox gives birth to a litter of fowls.
A formidable new beast is born in either case.
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rough interspecies sex
this is the content I come to CCE for...
morning highlight: gorgeous wee flock of bright bullfinches at Jewel Park.
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A fast-moving bird of prey of some kind overtook me along the canal as I was emerging from Kingsknowe Road Bridge, before banking right over the towpath ahead of me and swooping out of sight over the grass by the flats.
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Big skein of geese going west over the meadows at half three - heard before seen.
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Very dead fox on road at kingsnowe this morning 7.30a.m
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“heard before seen”
Wouldn’t get that in a car...
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@unhurt, were they heading north or south?
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Very much alive white and splodgy cat running past me on the towpath near the Bridge 8 Hub and very dead squirrel on the A71 by Heriot-Watt's North Gate yesterday morning.
A pair of swans and an assortment of goosanders unhappy to be sharing a small area of open water on the canal around Boroughmuir Plaza and the black and white cat which was up a tree last week testing the cat ice by WHEC this morning.
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Spotted three cyclists on the innocent - they showed me what they thought might have been an Osprey on a boulder in a field towards Arthur's Seat
I went for it being Tweed the escapee from pigeoning duties at the parliament.
It was a bruiser
(Harris Hawk)
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Scottish ospreys be in Senegal and Gambia right now.
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Any osprey unless en route be over water not on a rock in a field
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Spotted a skein of 30 or so geese this morning. Heading roughly north-west. I guess they must be Canadian.
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A flock of fieldfares near Traprain Law. Like thrushes but with grey backs.
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Acres of geese in snowy fields and sky, ravens by the handful, and a sparrowhawk hunting wildly in and over the scrub by the Harray Loch.
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a sparrowhawk hunting wildly in and over the scrub by the Harray Loch
I demand a Zen death haiku.
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Oh, lovely.
Yesterday: white fields filled with black silhouettes of geese, Skaill Loch full of goldeneye, and a female hen harrier crossing in front of the car, today thirteen curlews flying low overhead in the dusk at Dingieshowe and a raven perched on a standing stone.
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in the dusk at Dingieshowe and a raven perched on a standing stone
I demand a Zen death haiku.
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@bax now you've caved to his demands you'll be on call for zen death haiku duty forever.
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Wildlife curiosity of the day -
Two jackdaws in the bedroom.
Very keen to get out.
Wildlife bizarreness of the day -
I really don’t know how they got it!
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@unhurt
forever, you say!
yet the short-lived blossom represents the powerlessness of life before death and the delusion in our aspiration to live forever
Of late the nights
are dawning
plum-blossom white.
-- Buson, 1783
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I really don’t know how they got in!
A rather dodgy method: osmosis.
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Well quite.
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