Kingfisher flying low over The Esk above Musselburgh on Saturday.
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Wildlife highlight of the day
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Wish it was sharper!
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Not seen many snails or slugs this summer so far
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gembo, They are all in my garden I think. I can hardly walk across the lawn with stepping on a few large slugs.
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I've picked up loads of fat slugs which I chuck into the garden waste wheelie bin. They've been dining on my petunias. I feel mean persecuting snails, because they have such pretty shells. This shows how the homeless get the least respect.
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5 Spoonbills have been hanging around at Tyninghame recently. I was off yesterday and popped down in the rain - clearly to the wrong bit of the Inner Bay, as they were still there apparently, but I caught nary a glance (fortunately I've seen them before abroad, but really wanted the chance to see them on home turf!).
3 Little Egrets tempered the disappointment a little. But not much.
Sunday, a Nuthatch family near Gifford - the youngster following a parent that looked desperate for a bit of peace and quiet.
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Nuthatch Family by Anthony Robson, on Flickr
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We put down a sort of pebble surface like you see in public spaces out the back door. I wonder if the slugs and snails do not like it?
The Hostas which are normally slug food are thriving as are the sweet peas
I have killed some slugs if caught on my broccoli, scheeky but sanils I have flung down to the jungle, they will be happy there.
The volume has been really low compared with previous years
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We feed slugs and snails to our chooks. Mind you, there are so many of them (slugs and snails) that even they (the chickens) get a bit "y'know, I think I've probably had enough, I might just go home" about them.
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spotted spoonbill in Norfolk once also backside of a booming Bittern, boy were the twitchers excited about dat Bittern)
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Hedgehog in the garden last night, although the dog came very close to making it a wildlife lowlight. Hedgehog was soon nonchalantly wandering around the garden again after the dog was away.
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Red admiral butterflies have arrived. Wikipedia tells me they are migratory and have maybe just flown in on the nice weather.
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Maybes. Some species overwinter
Saw what looked like an orange admiral on climb to Soutra which is a made up species. Also red admiral. also lovely wild orange flowers new th funny yellow house just off the A7. Also two tennis courts.swifts, swallows, chaffinch singing for a mate. One red deer from the train.
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Hummingbird hawk moth on the lavender on a hotel roof terrace at a work do here in Baku. Very cool!
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This butterfly has a strong flight and can be found anywhere in the British Isles, including Orkney and Shetland. An interesting fact is that this butterfly is the only butterfly species ever to have been recorded from Iceland.
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“work do here in Baku”
Hope you all cycled.
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Bees enjoying a fabulous strand of thistles that grew after Scottish Water removed some boring cotoneaster to dig a trench.
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So "Red Admiral on top of Seana Bhraigh" isn't that interesting? (Not much cycling was involved in this.)
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Seana Bhraigh;
"A long walk, with sections which could be difficult to navigate in poor visibility. The forestry track can be cycled to save 5km of walking."
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"...cycled to save 5km of
walkingrunning" is what we did.
We had glorious weather. I would not want to be up there in cloud. "...could be difficult to navigate..." is an understatement... the terrain is much more complex than appears from the map.Posted 4 years ago # -
Three buzzards circling lazily over south Edinburgh. Lesser black-backed gulls doing their collective nuts.
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A very pretty cormorant fishing just downstream from the Dean Village yesterday, whilst out hunting Gormleys.
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Interesting but unidentified (by me) moth hanging around at a bus stop:
(Also a swift whizzing about in the sky over Oxgangs in the sunshine yesterday morning.)
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Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. I have typed an untruth into CCE.
The butterflies in the garden are painted ladies not red admirals.
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that is one huge moth
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@gembo
I found one once and it was the size of a WWI bomber. I must have posted it....ah yes four years ago.
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five years since my eldest was 16 and we went to Devon/Dorset
seems like a generation ago
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Two years since one of my favourite things on the internet.
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