Wood pigeon with a twig in its claws flying to build its nest in next door's big holly tree.
I thought construction was banned?
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Wildlife highlight of the day
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Essential construction still allowed. Quite likely that the pigeon was working on a new midwifery unit, after all.
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@Frenchy :-)
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@gembo: Not forgetting goldfinch - and starlings, which a lot of folks think of as just black but which can be very colourful in the right light.
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Yes was commenting to the Iwrats about the goldfinch and its magic nest up stream in the thread.
Stuckies do have that speckled petrol thing going on indeed
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figuring out how long whale sharks live
Highlight: "The study indicated that these creatures do actually live an incredibly long time.
"The absolute longevity of these animals could be very, very old, possibly as much as 100-150 years old," said Dr Meekan."
(Lowlight: this makes them even more vulnerable to exploitation than supposed)
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Wiki only has them at 80 yrs and Basking Sharks at 50 years
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This study only published today: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2020.00188/full
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First rapeseed blossoms in Ratho. Perhaps seeds that were left from the last year.
This year's rapeseed plants gained quite a few inches in height in the past couple of weeks.
Fields that had barely (i think) last year, have rapeseed this year and vice-versa.
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Kestrels hunting around Holyrood Park yesterday evening. I also heard but did not see an owl as it was getting dark.
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Woodpecker drumming in the Easter Craiglockhart Hill LNR yesterday. Also we thought we heard an owl a couple of times - around mid-day? Could have been a cheeky starling!
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A bumblebee in cheery/plum blossom this morning.
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Mr fimm ejected a bumblebee from our flat this morning. Not sure if that counts as a highlight.
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Cormorant cormorating in the sea off Seafield yesterday.
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'Cormorant' is a corruption of 'corbeau de mer' or sea crow.
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Richard Herring calls apples 'sky potatoes', in reference to their French name.
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Their french name pomme de terrestial de Ciel. So earth apples and sky potatoes.
Google Hold Your Plums Potato for 3mins 30 secs of sheer joy. Pot-ate-toes? or Pan-8-me slippers
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Se caille pot tes tôt?
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Oh, j'aime beau!
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Was on the back step at lunchtime watching a sparrowhawk circling high up and it stooped. Like a peregrine.
I had the bins on it and everything. It was astonishing.
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Pair of buzzards soaring over Colinton Mains as I picked up my click-and-collect order from Tesco.
(Had to go back shortly afterwards when I got home and discovered that they'd left the security tags on a couple of the bottles of, er...'medicine' that I'd ordered.)
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@ejstubbs that'll be you back on the swally, then..
wreck the hoose juice.. the commotion lotion..
get stuck in, that's the gemme
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Sparrowhawk stoop steep and swift
Pink Moon tonight altogether now
It’s a pink moon
Pink pink pink pink MoonNick Drake sitting next to a big pair of purple shoes on that particular album cover
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yeah that's a fantastic moon, with the pale blue sky and avian chorus
these times are such a strange attractor
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Indeed that is a splendid moon.
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Siskins and pheasants have flashes of colour. Pheasants ultra screechy just now. Spotted both on Whang today, also i Think a chiffchaff. Pinkish beige breast and finally the lesser spotted Laidback Dave hope he wasn’t thinking apple pie open
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My glimpse of it was so short I can't be sure, but I think it was the local sparrowhawk that I spotted hopping over the dyke into Lidl's car park this morning.
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@gembo: Pheasants are not a native British bird, though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pheasant
Though they can be found world over in introduced (and captive) populations, the pheasant genera native range is restricted to Asia.
Same goes for the Mandarin Duck and the Carolina Wood Duck (and the ruddy Ruddy Duck, though arguably that isn't as colourful).
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Swallows in D&G. Can't be long now.
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@ejstubbs
I decided not to mention peacocks for this reason - introduced from Asia.
More than 276 types of pheasant in the world.? Not just the one type we have. I had a colleague once who had a poster which was a world map appended with types of pheasant. 276 is just a recollection. I may have gone high
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