@IWRATS, I thought I caught a fleeting glimpse of a swallow last weekend. However it was then hovering and diving to ground level for prey so I'll chalk it up as a kestrel instead.
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Wildlife highlight of the day
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For a brief moment I could have sworn I heard swifts screaming as I walked through Colinton Mains on Monday. I suspect it was probably starlings, or a starling, especially since I heard a fair impression of a curlew a few seconds later.
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@ejstubbs
Never before the 4th of May. Never. Trust me on this one. Nothing else. Just this.
I'll bump the Swiftwatch™ thread when the time comes.
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Giant toad migrating in Holyrood https://twitter.com/ultrazool/status/1248265868209016833
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Collared dove risking life on cut through twixt mid Calder and Livi
Two collared doves on long dalmahoy (just after I spotted a dilapidated tennis court)
Highlight Lapwing landing in field on lang whang
Love the little head feathers on that birdie
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Goldcrests in Warriston Cemetery yesterday!
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goldcrests always a welcome blessing
dreadful hay fever today
will have to start boozing earlier than usual
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@iwrats: I didn't honestly think that there were actually swifts about, it was just that on hearing the calls my brain initially registered "swifts" before realising that it couldn't possibly be. As I say, I put it down to starlings (I've seen a small murmuration over Colinton Mains a few times this winter just gone).
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@ejstubbs
Fear not. I have whipped my head skywards in March, fooled by those crazy starlings. They know a birder when they see one.
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Fairly certain the stuckies in my garden mimic my alarm clock
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On our pre-lunch walk to the egg shop to we saw a bat flying about, only the second time I've seen one in the middle of the day.
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house mouse sitting inside the cage of the peanut feeder, middle of the afternoon, bold as brass
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Deer in Kirknewton woods, collared doves near Kirk o’calder where paraffin young worshipped
Pot bellied pigs at Tarbrax.
Some flat frogs on the Kirk o Calder road too
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There is a goldcrest hawking flies in our garden. Could well be a nest somewhere.
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Fly is to gold crest as Mouse is to buzzard?
(Size of claw wise not size of bird)
But a carrot is as close to a diamond as a rabbit’ll ever get
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First Swallow of the year for us, near Pathhead, this afternoon. We spent a few moments enjoying its graceful flight as it hoovered up insects in the lee of some trees, with bright sunlight glinting on its back.
Cheers
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Thought saw swallow tonight on lymphoy but have adjusted to Lark Ascending
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@Colin
Wonderful. I can't wait. May even head south on my 5(8)b tomorrow to get a better chance of a sight.
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@Colin
Wonderful. I can't wait. May even head south on my 5(8)b tomorrow to get a better chance of a sight.
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IWRATS sounds like a good plan. The A68 is amazingly rideable at the moment too! We saw the Swallow on Salters’ Road which runs parallel to the A68 south of Pathhead. If you’re tempted, beware of the ford on the way to Windymains as,although it’s shallow, it’s notoriously slippy.
Cheers
ColinPosted 4 years ago # -
@colin is that the Ford with the footbridge next to it and the big sign saying cyclists dismount? One of our peloton is famous for falling off there twice.
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gembo - the very one! The tall beech hedge on the west side was being shorn when we went by - seemed a bit ruthless to me.
Cheers
ColinPosted 4 years ago # -
@colin, I have pal who lives Fala Dam, Told her many stories of the ford. She agreed how tricksy it was. With lockdown appears she also decided to cycle through it. Well. Off she fell.
I think as you say it looks innocuous but it is NOT
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Was about a foot away from Mongolian Pheasant today, lovely purple flash on back of neck.
ALso spottted crow standing on back of a sheep and a lamb newborn, tiny and very unsure of its feet
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Lots of wheatears out today
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Fox crossing a road in Livingston right in front of me just before 8am this morning. The road is normally busy but not today.
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(Yesterday)
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Them syreens did this to Pete. They loved him up and turned him into a Horny Toad.
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Hirundines of some sort skimming over Rosebery Reservoir
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@amir - the hirundines were spotted Pathead way by @Colin. Hirondelles?
A house martin in french - Hirondelle de fenetre
Swift in French Martinet
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