Pheasant in a beech tree.
Not quite the same ring to it.
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Big bee update - it was lying upended in the sitooterie next to my bottles for recycling, so i moved the bottles to the garage and released the big bee which made a remarkable recovery and flew over my neighbour’s house in the direction of the french town of Effen,
As you see, it was the Big Effen Bee
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A pair of long-tailed tits in the garden, gathering feathers left from a cat/pigeon interaction a couple of days ago. Birds ramping up into full-on new-bird-producing mode.
Inverleith Pond swans are nest-building with enthusiasm too, and some of the Canada geese are getting very into their entertaining courtship stuff. Lots of lowered necks and honking.
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@gembo Good effort at raising spirits there. Keep up the good work.
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Butterfly (Small Tortoiseshell) on the daphne in our front garden just now. Both the butterfly and the shrub were a bit ragged looking.
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One snail yesterday and a dandelion today, daffodils a plenty down the border twixt my wasteland and my neighbours wasteland. His is worse than mine now. As he is chucking the hedge clippings whereas I AM BROWN BINNING THEM
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A bumblebee the size of a small mouse on my grape hyacinths. She gave up on because she was too heavy to sit on them!
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@unhurt that is the same big bee that left my sitooterie yesterday and flew off in the direction of the french town of Effen
But this big Effen Bee has gone to Stocky instead hoping for a place in Corson’s recently cleared and cleaned shelves in his window so that we can play Corson by going in to ask for a Bee, Corson will say I don’t sell Bees AND WE will say [altogether now] Well you’ve got one in your window
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Peacock butterfly in the back garden yesterday. (I was splitting logs, as much for the exercise as anything else, having abandoned an attempt at going for a short walk in the Pentlands due to The Great British Public's apparent inability to grasp the concept of maintaining a 2m safe distance).
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Heading down the Blackhall path this AM and stopped to watch some starlings - and heard the trill of a curlew. Quite an unexpected location - so I looked about for the source and discovered one of the starlings had added curlew calls to its repertoire!
Lovely shelducks on the tidal flats near Cramond, some real curlews, many probably-redshank (they were far away & I'm bad at waders), black-backed gulls, oystercatchers, and on the way home a passel of goldfinches, and of sparrows, one lovely greenfinch, several bullfinches (are there more of them this year?) and a hoodie crow dropping a big fat winkle onto the tarmac to get at the tasty innards.
Garden goldfinches are munching through the nyger seed at a great rate this week.
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@unhurt
Spring is sprung
The grass is riz
I wonder where dem birdies is?
The little birds are on the wing
But that’s absurd
Cause dem little wings are on the birdsPosted 4 years ago # -
A pheasant appears to have taken up residence in our garden.
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Our pigeons are back with a new nest in the bay tree outside the back door.
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What kind of pigeon? Wood? Their nests are a skimpy shambles for such a fat clumsy bird.
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Wood pigeon couple often in my garden. Will come right up to window - fat ugly feckers
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My mother-in-law has a French bird book that correctly states that wood pigeon's heads are too small.
Once seen cannot be unseen.
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Their head might be too small but I can cope with that. NEVER look at a town pigeon’s feet. I said don’t (sometimes they dont even have a claw just little stumpy bits) dont do it
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Collared dove in bird bath.
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Punctured bicycle on a hillside
Not literally been in house since last Wednesday nichtPosted 4 years ago # -
Proper plump wooden pigeons like the ones who lived in the tree outside my window when I was small.
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Was down the garden there scavenging wood to chop.
Wood pigeon tiny head massive body in tree
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Yellowhammers heard on today's excursión. The sound of summer
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Robin in the hedgerow
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I went through a phase of shooting wood pigeons in the head for food. They really are tiny.
I know CCE is vegan but whachagonnado?
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I sensed from the small head plump body beginning this is where it was going to land. What is the name of the way the pigeon flies, kind of soaring, Mrs Garto told me the name when she was teaching flight. But now she is not teaching flight she denies it,
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What is the name of the way the pigeon flies
Paragliding?
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Had a walk in Rosefield Park in Porty last night and could smell the flowers and hear the burn from the park entrance. A lot to be said for the huge drop in traffic.
Could also hear the pylon fizzing as it was a little misty
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No not paragliding something like Ebullient?
Bullfinch joined the pigeons, robins, sparrow, tits in garden toda
Yesterday there was an ancient pied wagtail going along the gutter when I opened the curtain. Did not even fly off.
No corpse in my garden maybe made it along the Rhône to next door
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Tree creeper on Craigmillar Hill. Anti-clockwise subspecies.
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Greenfinches on the feeder! Not seen many for ages, hope this means they're making a comeback.
Re: wood pigeons: they "waddle when they walk, which adds to their general appearance of being overweight. In fact, the Wood Pigeon's feathers weigh more than its skeleton and it is Europe's largest pigeon."
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