Sparrowhawk nomming a pigeon in our front garden.
Magpie in the tree opposite raising an alarum.
Crow having a wee go at swooping down and trying to frighten it off, without effect.
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Wildlife highlight of the day
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Left most of it when it flew off after half an hour. No pudding for her.
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Crow scavenging in the bins near brewhemia, seagulls yes but I thought crows had more class than to lower themselves to. Bin rakers
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Yesterday's highlight was a harrier near Makkum in Friesland. I couldn't pin down the species as it insisted on flying into the sun.
Today, many dozen spoonbills on the Wadden sea side of Terschelling.
Bike spots on Spotted once I have time go through the faff of posting pics
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Two wee deer in the trees next to NCN 196, just east of Auchendinny on Sunday afternoon. Wouldn't have noticed them if a jogger hadn't been stopped watching them.
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500 or so geese heading west over Tinto Hill
Two dozen pheasants south side of Talla
Dozen we orange caterpillars own north side of talla
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Today, near IJlst, more kestrels than I've seen in years. A vole, a connection? Two harriers, about 30 great white egrets, a peregrine diving at starlings
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What a stoater! As I was cycling along the canal towpath beyond Gogar Station Road Bridge this morning, I spotted a long, furry creature on the towpath ahead of me... It looked at me inquisitively and started to approach me as I was approaching it before scurrying into the foliage beside the path with a flash of its black-tipped tail.
The Heriot-Watt Stoat has been keeping a low profile of late, possibly due to my suspicion that it was involved in the sudden disapperance of three new cygnets on The Loch earlier in the summer - I assume that this must be a different stoat, in any case, and given that I spotted it near a boat route I will name it Stoaty McStoatface.
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Lovely sunset this evening. A good number of bats flying around The Meadows - oddly, I can't remember having spotted bats there previously.
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“Lovely sunset this evening”
True -
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I was in a meeting in a third floor office and exclaimed 'Sparrowhawk!' as a sparrowhawk passed by outside, mobbed by many pigeons and two magpies and now the people in the meeting think I am odd or mad.
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"now"
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I didn't want the job anyway.
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Ardnamurchan trip produced NO eagles - what a swizz. Lots of ravens & buzzards though, and also some exciting hermit crabs, a very small and perfect starfish, a very pointy deer up close and unfazed by humans, and in the non-wildlife animal category, some excellent dogs of different types and the world's most talkative free-range pigs. Oh and some of those weird 4-horned sheep.
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A bat and a hedgehog at different points of my extended commute home.
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Ardnamurchan trip produced NO eagles - what a swizz. Lots of ravens & buzzards though
I find that an inability to tell the difference between a buzzard and an eagle helps with spotting eagles :)
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Toad crossing the road to Ardnamurchan Lighthouse, either a massive buzzard or possibly an eagle soaring above the road to Sanna Bay and an adorable pine marten investigating the garden of the cabin we are staying at near Kilchoan.
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A pair of white tailed eagles just flapped by as we were taking a gentle wander along the shore near Kilchoan.
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My mum's food recyling bin sits out the front and there are woods nearby. Monday night she was out to put stuff in it and found a large badger attacking it - it eyed her for a while before retreating. Morning evidence suggests it was back again later as the contents were widely distributed.
All quite exciting (though food bin might have to come inside or go higher up).
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Passage through a badger sounds like an ideal method of recycling food?
In fact could this be done on an industrial scale by battery badgers?
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@IWRATS battery badgers bring more environmentally friendly overall?
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Two foxes last night on way up Gilmerton Road, both wandering nonchalantly across the road.
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Small tortoiseshell fluttering happily in the sunshine around our herb planter this morning. Not bad going when the air temperature is 8°C. (I know they often overwinter but a splash of colour from the local wildlife as the year starts to turn is always welcome IMO).
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Small furry caterpiller crossing the towpath near Calder Road this morning. I spotted some far larger examples in Ardnamurchan last week but nowhere near as many as I saw when walking in the Pentlands around this time last year.
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Goosander on the canal this morning and yesterday morning.
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The Heriot-Watt Stoat (or possibly one of its relatives - this one seemed smaller than the one(s) I saw a lot a while ago) sauntered across the footpath in front of me just after I exited from the Student Union after lunch.
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The Kingsknowe Kingfisher skimming along the water (and twice dipping into it but not obviously catching anything, although it had a good chirp after the second dip) on the far side of the canal at Hailes Quarry Park as I was cycling home at half six ish - quite dark for fishing, yet its beautiful plumage still stood out as I saw it out of the corner of my eye.
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Autumn morning sunshine showing my regular wee flock of visiting goldfinches to charming effect.
At least till the fat squirrel frightened them off so she could scoff the seed.
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