A fox on Lanark Rd in Currie around 6 this morning. It headed back towards WoL after seeing me.
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The foxlets are very busy being energetic, next door but one to my parents' house.
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A large Gulp of Swallows out by Ainville yesterday and of course the Clydesdale Foal
Today was alas all death — spread-eagled pheasant, wee rabbit ready for the pot out at The Puddocks (beyond Harperrig) and more costly, farmer on Cockurnhill came by me twice, second time with dead sheep in trailer
LOt of the lambs get out at this time of year but this was a fully mature, way beyond Hogget baa-baa no more
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Six newish cygnets up on Dunsapie Loch.
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Six newish cygnets on Blackford Pond.
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Swallows and house martins picking stinky flies off the sea at Morrison's Haven. Larks singing over the former ash ponds.
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A solitary ant crossing the gravel outside our back door carrying an entire sycamore seed by itself.
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Buzzard hovering over the old Autism Ventures Hermitage golf course. I've seen buzzards hovering before but they don't usually make that good a job of it. This one seemed to have got the hang of it quite well, however. Did seem a bit high up to be able usefully to spot and pounce on potential prey, though.
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Drumming snipe in the Moorfoots. This was in a chorus of curlews, lapwings, etc
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Dried pea rattling in a jar out A70 before City of Capital Sign. Today and yesterday a.m. Reed warbler?
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Stoat or weasel running along the cycle path from the wisp to little france this morning .
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A Red Kite by Traprain Law on Saturday, then two Wren chicks and adult on my compost heap when we got home. Happy days!
Cheers
ColinPS amir, lovely sound. Gembo - Grasshopper Warbler perhaps?
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@colin - they are on the rise for sure (Grasshopper Warblers)
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At some point kites will enter Edinburgh, once they've crossed the Dead Zone in sufficient numbers. People put bones out for them in Aylesbury.
Imagine, eh?
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I forgot to mention that I heard swifts screaming over Newington last night and looked up to spot four. I then watched them and soon realised that there were quite a few more in the vicinty, certainly well into double figures.
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@colin: Sorry, I can't see how the grasshopper warbler's call could be possibly described as being like a dried pea rattling in a jar. Unless there's another call they make.
@gembo: Good to hear that grasshopper warblers are on the increase. Maybe I wasn't imagining it when I thought I heard one just after I'd crossed the Howden Burn at the ford by the cistern building below Green Craig a few weeks ago?
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Young house sparrow learning to fly, just flew into my back. Unharmed though as it clumsily made it back to it's nest sharpish
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At one point yesterday we had a robin, a blue tit and a goldfinch all perched on the washing line. Some bird the goldfinch.
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Heard my first cuckoo of the year yesterday, which seems quite late? Maybe I just have not been in a place where there was a cuckoo.
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Heard cuckoo last week w Lothian
Saw woodpecker on saturday
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I am still trying to find a cuckoo
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We heard a cuckoo in the trees at the property at the top of Loganlee Reservoir on Sunday morning during our jog. I remember because Mr Bill was making fun of the Polish word for a cuckoo, which is 'kukułka'. He adds 'łka' at the end of 'cuckoo' call.
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A wee spin round by Levenhall Links produced a flotilla of young Eiders being attended by some females, and a pair of smart young Gooseanders with adult. Delighted to then see two Avocets from the hides.
Cheers
ColinPS ejstubbs - yes, not a very good suggestion after all!
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@colin, nice to se avocet this far north probably following the grasshopper warbler
It probBLY WAS. GHW AND MY DESCRIPTION OF THE WARBLING WAS NOT. Up to the mark
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A nice big otter in the Water of Leith at Saughton Park.
Spotted because of several people with large cameras all taking photos, so it must be quite common to see it there at that time.
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@Colin
Wow. A bird I have wanted to see since I was twelve. Thanks!
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@IWRATS not bad enough to make the pilgrimage to Minsmere? Yer Avocet is common there also Spoonbill and I am privileged to also have seen the rear end of a booming bittern
All at minsmere, It is long way down but worth it if you are in the south east ever on your books tours. Cambridge too quite close (roads mad)
Warning demographic at Minsmere is heavily bearded, cammo wearing, massive zoom lens toting Twitchers
You could rent the @Urchaidh in-laws house at Walberswick and cycle down in a n hour or so
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Also avocets at Leighton Moss (along with marsh harriers, bitterns ...). Possible to get there by train. Or a one day cycle?!
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Otters too at Leighton Moss last time I was there.
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This is great: https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/edinburgh-swan-litter-police-scotland-22144044
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