Robin that thinks it’s a blackbird and is singing from the top of a lamppost.
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Wildlife highlight of the day
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Heading down Gilmerton Road, I had to swerve to avoid something in the cycle lane. Cue thought process:
"Was that a lizard? Couldn't be..."
I stopped to check, anyway, and as I walked back towards it:
"Nah, must be a glove...but it does look a lot like a lizard...it has legs..."
Only when I got within a couple of metres did I realise that it was a toy lizard, which I humanely repositioned from the road to a nearby wall.
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You do get actual green lizards in Scotland, saw one once in Balerno but they are shy
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Very nearly ran over a specimen of the Kingsknowe Rat on the canal in Polwarth at half ten tonight. Many bunnies on the WoL path around Juniper Green with similar nocturnal suicidal tendencies.
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@unhurt, sounds like The Polwarth Rat?
11 ducklings and one duck on canal west of Harrison park last night about 8.30pm
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We saw a live lizard in the Pentlands over the Easter weekend.
Mr fimm reports two different lots of duckings on the canal.
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Moorhen chicks on the canal at Wester Hailes.
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The swan family on the canal now has a Twitter account.
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Followed.
@gembo I think I saw those same ducklings yesterday morning as I went west.
But surely ALL rats are just manifestations of the Kingsknowe Rat?
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All rats on the canal are Kingsknowe Rats. That is a correct understanding.
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Cuckoo calling at Hopes Reservoir - very early this year (this time of year we go a LOT). Couldn't get eyes on him, but always so nice to hear.
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Orange-tip flutterby on the canal towpath.
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9 cygnets at Slateford, sharing the space nicely with a host of ducklings.
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Wonderful Hare action before walking from Dowlaw to St Abbs today (second shot uncropped, and at only 390mm of the lens reach of 500mm)
Dowlaw Hare_1 by Anthony Robson, on Flickr
Dowlaw Hare_5 by Anthony Robson, on FlickrSparrowhawk at the St Abbs end (just love that evil yellow eye)
St Abbs Sparrowhawk by Anthony Robson, on FlickrHeading home spotted the Aberlady Little Egret in the rain
Aberlady Little Egret by Anthony Robson, on FlickrDepressingly expected sight yesterday at a shooting estate - the scorched earth.
Hopes Partridge Scorched Landscape by Anthony Robson, on Flickr
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Great pics apart from last. I like a hare way more than a rabbit. APparently introduced by Romans now not normans
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South Bridge is becoming a hub of tat for geeks shops... Once it was merely Forbidden Planet, then the above Harry Potter, Star Wars, superhero etc. shop appeared, now there is a Disney-style store and a Game of Thrones shop just along and across the road... Madness.
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After my wander round the Open Streets earlier, it occurs to me that the shop above is on Victoria Street and is not the shop that I was thinking about on South Bridge. This doesn't necessarily make the situation any better though.
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I heard but didn't spot a woodpecker as I was cycling across the junction at the end of MMW and turning right towards Bruntsfield at half sevenish.
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Oh, I heard one very close (but couldn't spot) it on the Dean Path yesterday. Was quite exciting.
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Yesterday: a frog that hopped out of a border that the missus had only just finished weeding and generally tidying up. Sat on the lawn looking as if it was trying to pretend we couldn't see it. Didn't seem at all put out when I carefully picked it up and released it in to our new pond for a bit of a swim, which it set about with gusto. It was gone a few hours later.
Later in the day, a magpie that seemed to want to have a bath in the pond, but didn't seem keen on the depth of the marginal shelf. It kept hopping out on to my new pot of watercress (which might explain why it's been so slow to get going) and then gingerly stepping down in to the deeper water. Did eventually have a good sluice before giving itself a shake and flying off.
Come to think: Saturday evening, a small raptor flying rapidly across Pentland Road near to Jim's farm at about telegraph pole height. Not much time to discern any distinguishing features so put it down as the same kestrel that I'd seen hovering nearby a week or so previously.
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Watching the Dippers in the sun just there on the WoL. The house on its own just on the left before you get to Balerno heading west was a mill owner's house and the WoL path actually has the entry and exit lades from the WoL underneath it. The exit lade remains open. This is where those crafty dippers are nest buliding. Nicely concealed. Beneath our feet and Bicyle tyres.
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A dipper skimming low like a fighter jet following the twists of the Braid Burn as I hirpled home from Craiglockhart Hill.
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Double dipper
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'Could have been the same one that had used the interchange' I thought but then sadly realised that's the canal not the Braid Burn. I like the idea of the WoL going over the BB on stilts but it will never come to pass.
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A cuckoo on the walk in to the Cullin on Skye.
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@fimm, one of the main reasons I'm looking to get out to the north-west, and then Lewis, at the end of May, start of June - cuckoos galore! Such an evocative sound :)
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