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Wildlife highlight of the day
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Fox came into the garden and started digging up the tatties in front of us. Seemed to be some kind of game. Wished us to chase it as it ran about with a raw spud in its gob.
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We scared a hedgehog off the road somewhere north of Perth on Friday. They can fairly move if they don't decide to curl up into a ball.
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Greater spotted woodpecker on our peanut feeder this morning. I know this isn't a particularly uncommon occurrence but it's only the second time I've seen one in our garden in the fourteen years we've been here (and we've never had a nuthatch). It seemed totally unconcerned as I tootled around in the kitchen making my breakfast but flew away as soon as I got my camera out :(
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A kingfisher flying along the canal between Kingsknowe and Wester Hailes as I was cycling home from work this evening. That's my first spot in ages. I possibly half-saw one in the same area around the time that I seem to remember Greenroofer spotting one.
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A wicker basket of pigeons being released above Ratho the other day, just a wee practice run back to Edinburgh.
Interesting that the baskets still being made (looked quite new)
Apparently big interest in pigeon racing in China?
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Loads of swans in the sea at Musselburgh yesterday, including a family with eight large cygnets.
Also two small furry things skedaddling across on the Roslin path. Mice/voles/shrews, not sure.
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@chdot, yeah like them except as this is edinburgh, wicker rather than MDF.
I love these closed worlds. Sadly Pallats - the suppliers to the Racing Pigeon Fraternity - are all out of Sputniks.
I bought a stove from the sweeps suppliers at sea field end of leith. The stove bit was joined to the sweeps supply warehouse - another semi-closed world.
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A buzzard that didn't notice me till I was 2 metres away them lifted off the fence post in irritation rather than panic. Grasshopper warbler, male yellowhammer, lots of bubbling starling, charming charms of goldfinches and a whole flock of bullfinches on the viaduct outside Montrose. ETA also kittiwakes.
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I had two newly fledged buzzards mewling for food at the anti-aircraft gun emplacements on Braid Hill the other day. Quite tame. In time they may become like seagulls?
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If a buzzard wants my chips she can have them.
Oh, forgot about the heron fishing at low tide in Gourdon harbour - and getting harassed hy a couple of herring gulls. Turns out an angry heron makes quite a loud SQUARK.
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We had a pleasant morning before the rain set in (again) watching several ospreys mooching, chomping and hunting at Loch Leven. Partly assisted by excellent scone at the RSPB. Also a couple of pig impressionist ravens by the ruins of Orwell Church
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Spotted sister of one of my colleagues chatting to the bunnies on the towpath
The two women share a flat. The sister reports they spot many more rats than bunnies
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Now 6 Spoonbills at Tyninghame (though distant and sleepy - this is a massive crop, even from 500mm). Hoping they hang around till the start of September when I've some proper time off and can go when it's high tide instead.
Tyninghame Spoonbills by Anthony Robson, on Flickr
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Nice @WC. I've heard about them for a while on Twitter but haven't got around to going to see them.
At my OH's hometown, you can get to see a pink version.Posted 4 years ago # -
Hey @amir - yeah, they've been hanging around for ages. Fingers crossed they like it (certainly seem to) and it becomes an annual thing!
Roseate Spoonbills are even more striking! Just so improbable, especially when you see them flying with that bill held out in front.
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Spoonbills this far north - climate change??
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After watching my first Spotted Redshank at Musselburgh Lagoons, yesterday, I enjoyed watching a Peregrine making a succession of attempts to catch its dinner. It was high tide so there were many agitated birds on and around the scrapes.
Also, the Wild Justice petition now has over 62000 signatures in under a week.
Cheers
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Mute swan and five cygnets, many mallards, score of tufted ducks and a dab chick. Something quite interesting far side of loch but hard to say. Identification hindered by lots of pink flowering plants floating on the water and big bulrushes near the hide (above balerno)
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I just remembered that I spotted two goosanders on the canal on Friday for the first time in a few months.
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Hedgehog being de-ticked.
It had quite a few.
“wee update- hedgepig seems to be recovering well and likely to be released later”
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Are you part of a vigilante hedgehog rescue group now?
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I think I keep seeing buzzards on my commute now. There is usually one sitting on top of a bale of straw along Gogar Bank. Another one this morning on a tree along Clifton Rd but flew away before I could take a better look of it.
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A kingfisher perched on the head of the Antony Gormley statue in the Water of Leith just by Stockbridge Bridge. I only spotted it because I saw a group of people with cameras trained on the statue from the side road. It caught and consumed at least one fish before heading upstream a little where I was able to spot it again. It then perched calmly on a branch for quite some time before eventually flying out of sight.
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Just there approx 19.45pm approx 25 swallows high above the house. I think maybe they were saying cheerio
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