Our wren appears to be gaining in confidence. I hope it knows the cats aren't confined to the houses.
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My neighbours cats big predators of dem birdies. In a nice twist a colony of sparrows live under the eaves of my neighbour’s property.
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A buzzard lazily soaring over Craigmiller and a decent-sized rat scuttling across the prom on the way to Crammond.
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@jdanielp
That buzzard has taken to quite active hunting on the hill itself, swooping along the various forest paths like an accipiter. Seems to be after squirrels.
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Is it Tweed the Harris Hawk big bruiser huge talons worthy of wood pigeon and town pigeon murder.? Blown from Crags or just out bossing it? Buzzards top Kill probably a mouse. Tiny wee feet. Like Wee Douigie the guy who helped sand my floor Drew attention to them by having tiny wee slipppers with enormous emblems on them (was side kick to Nick The Mod). Red Kites are the same despite their display - wee claws.
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I have seen the Harris hawk over this way but just once? Buzzard not to be underestimated - can catch and kill a rabbit easily, just can't be bothered.
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You are bigging up dem buzzards I am saying they are puny.
For sure they cannot take a lambikin
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Our wren appears to be gaining in confidence
the males have to build around six nests for the females to choose from, so they are often visible and busy at this time
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Magpies courting. Very fancy
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Poor Mr Wren he has a fussy partner. But if each nest is selected from 6 where 5 are totally rejected that is 25 million nests? Is iit?
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i expect they build a showpiece nest and make a token effort on the rest
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Good wren lore.
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Crafty Wren 4 million show home Nests 20 million lean tos and benders
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tip of the hat to the lean young tabby cat persistently buttering me up so he can have the run of my yards as a sporting lodge
no can do son, if your names not down, you're not getting in
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@bax San how do we rid our yards of unwanted moggies?
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@gembo
What know the young of 'benders'?
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Some great stories of how the Stewarts of Blairgowrie had a laugh with Ewan McColl and Hamish Henderson. The Stewarts orignally being travellers we’re partial to summering around and about in benders and bow-tents.
As a callow youth i was approached by an Irish tinker on the golf course in Ayr. He had fashioned a bender but I had to decline his kind offer to join him due to being petrified.
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how do we rid our yards of unwanted moggies?
undoubtedly they remain undeterred in the long term
as a feline sympathiser in general, i am a water pistol man first and foremost, and do not resort to the catapult unless there is gratuitous death in local avian community
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There was a cheeky wee chaffinch atop a (dead) tree in our back green this afternoon. Cheeping away merrily. (Might possibly have been a brambling, but I'm going with chaffinch based on the loud cheeping call).
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@crowriver
There were bramblings in the north this winter but they will have left by now. They don't breed here.
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@bax San how do we rid our yards of unwanted moggies?
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A wee bird with a splendid red chest visible from our window this morning (not a robin - finch or tit possibly?).
A grouse that stayed still and squawked at me rather than flapping off noisily in their usual fashion - I guess on a nest.
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@fimm
A trim bullfinch perhaps? They have done well these past few years.
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Bullfinches on the up for sure.
Saw three donkeys above balerno today, Temple Houe where M. Iwrats and I considered a joint canvass.
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@gembo
Should have done that for sure.
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Would have been good for a nosey. I understand the farmer but the others living away up there but next to other big houses. I suppose in days of knights templar would have been myriad lean-tos and benders.
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@IWRATS that looks like it! Really bright colour.
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@fimm
Very striking birds. Very often in pairs with the understated but elegant female less obvious.
The contact call is very easy to imitate - I have called a few to me in quiet woods.
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We sometimes forget that we have some very colourful birds despite not being in the tropics
Bullfinch. Kingfisher, top but also
Magpie tail feathers, greenfinch et cetera
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