Hope these otters don't eat the kingfishers.
They won't just compete with them for the fishes
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Wildlife highlight of the day
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@gembo this has possibly already happened? I would quite like to witness the squeak/whistle standoff between them.
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Mountain hare on white. Dead by side of road between White Castle and Whiteadder Reservoir. :(
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A shaggy dog story with a happy ending: Estonians rescue wild wolf from ice thinking it was a dog
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First sighting of bramblings in our garden. Lovely
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Meanwhile Natural England has issued licences for slaughter of a large number of geese of all types and indeed some quite rare birds. Curlews, what bother do they ever cause, usually quite solitary. A wren in south Yorks. Seems harsh.
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Sparrowhawk this morning appeared to fly through a fence with gaps that looked decidedly smaller than a sparrowhawk. It probably actually went just over the top of it, but it really did look like it had resorted to quantum tunnelling as a mode of transport.
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Quantum wildlife :)
I heard the first skylark on a commute this year. I have heard them on weekend rides recently, but they are particularly uplifting on the way into work, countering any associated negativity. What a joyous sound.
Curlews are more soulful and can be encountered during the winter if I deviate along the Musselburgh shore.
Now the hedgerows and woody bits are alive with the song of blackbirds, robins etc. Why people wear headphones, I don't know.
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A fox in the front garden of a house just along the road from Greenroofer Towers on Wednesday evening.
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“Sparrowhawk this morning appeared to fly through a fence with gaps that looked decidedly smaller than a sparrowhawk.”
Somewhere there is a video of a sparrowhawk (or smiliar) threading it’s way through a woodland at high speed.
I think it was a BBC film and possibly on YouTube, but all sorts of googlesearching hasn’t found it again.
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@Frenchy
Both options quite possible. I've seen sparrowhawks fly 'into' up and over walls at high speed.
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Well that was the best three minutes of the day.
I had a grim chuckle at the cloud of feathers on the bird feeder.
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@CHdot I think Springwatch recently simulated a wood and tested whether a Sparrowhawk or a Barn Owl would be quicker through the course (a sort of hanging slalom pole simulation). Sparrowhawk triumphed.
Owls last night hooting like craze
Three oystercatchers in formation this morning going nuts
The fattest sparrow I have ever seen, the other day in my neighbours gutter. I can onbly imagine it has become approx. 5 sparrows by now.
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@IWRATS that video has some excellent opportunities for GIFs.
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Also: Use of the ground-effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_effect_(aerodynamics)
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@jdanielp
I am intrigued. Will study.Can you post GIFs here?
EDIT: Ah yes. Spotted.
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Not the precise clip I’ve seen before, but pretty amazing.
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@chdot
There's a goshawk one that is mind-blowing. Shows the bird using its legs to haul itself through a letterbox size hole in full flight. Cannae find it but.
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@IWRATS not quite perfect, but you get the idea.
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Excellent!
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A fox on the towpath last night making its way around the blind corner of the newer Slateford Aqueduct just ahead of me, although my light only illuminated it at the last moment so it took me by surprise. It seemed quite unperturbed.
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A single snow bunting leading me through a deserted Metro station. Ah, hang on. Belay that, just dreaming.
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Which Metro Station?
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Ah, now. Not one of the white-tiled arched roof ones, so trench cut. Austerlitz maybe?
Am now concerned the bunting was a spirit guide.
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Grouse, surprisingly unconcerned by our presence, in the Pentalnds. (Yes, I was on a bicycle.)
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Four buzzards over the same huge rolling field beyond Burntisland today. Field had been ploughed.
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The tawny owl in Inch Park is very, very keen to meet lady tawny owls.
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