To be fair swans are a bit grubby.
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@jdanielp can you go from Preston to Lanacaster along the canal?
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It just occurred to me that it was the swan that tagged the bin.
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@gembo indeed you can. It used to go as far as Kendal.
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@Jdanielp I have often wondered about this as you can see it from the M6, if i have the correct canal
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Riccarton Garden Centre opens at 7.30am so we were down this morning as too blustery to cycle this am
Picked up a fair few plants (no bargains but nice to shop local)
The owner is diversifying into a sort of small animal zoo, horses, pigs etc
I had a 9 month old Rooster dancing on My left boot. Wings short, still all grey, quite like a dinosaur. Excellent Cockericoo from its thrapple.
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@gembo
Birds are dinosaurs. When you see a hen catch a mouse there is no doubt.
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The garden centres were so preoccupied with whether they could that they didn't stop to think if they should.
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@gembo The Lancaster Canal is indeed visible from the M6. It is even more visible from the West Coast Main Line.
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sat and watched a woodpecker and a nuthatch demolish the sunflower/peanut mix in my parent's feeder, from about 4 meters away. Was remarkable.
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Following last week's buzzard trying to impersonate a kestrel, today we encountered a buzzard in Roslin Glen (the old gunpowder factory bit) that appeared to be trying to do an impression of a sparrowhawk. Not nearly as nimble through the trees, though.
Also a pied wagtail accompanied by what appeared to be a fledgling, which seemed to beg for a short while but then give up and started foraging on its own. Plus grey wagtail, dipper, treecreeper, great spotted woodpecker and at one point a couple of swifts high overhead.
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Buzzard on Lang Whang yesterday impersonating Red Kite.
Thinking several of my too high in the sky to be buzzard May time spotting of Osprey migration may well need to be adjusted buzzard wise.
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Shoveler shoveling near the lime quarry at Middleton
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I saw a buzzard hovering briefly on Sunday. Somewhere in East Lothian, can't remember where.
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I don't recall ever spotting an owl in Edinburgh before but last night one flew silently across the road just in front of me. Sadly it quickly disappeared behind the hedge.
At the time I guessed it was a tawny owl but googling pictures of them in flight I now think barn.
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Depends @acsimpson what you class as Edinburgh,. Balerno used to be Midlothian and require getting off th Corpy Bus at Just Bike Repairs of Juni and walking 10 yards up the road and getting. A country bus. One of the reasons the bus stops are so close together.
Anyway I lie of an evening listening to them hooting, it is most atmospheric. Catch v occasional glimpse too
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A pair of tawny owl live somewhere around KB and if they were calling when I left I knew I had stayed too long at work.
That is until the day they started calling shortly after lunch...
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@mediunDave, yer Tawny is smart as paint. They had been watching you and were saying - look at the human he sets his clock by us and knows he is late if he hears us. Why dont we freak him out by too-whit-too-wooing NOW
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@acsimpson: It should be fairly straightforward to differentiate between tawny and barn owls even in low light: the barn own owl is significantly paler, with an almost pure white face and underside.
It's the tawny owl that hoots - in fact the classic "too wit too woo" is supposed to be two owls doing a call and response. The barn owl's call is just a sort of guttural, hissy screech.
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I've heard owls on the Water of Leith path in Collinton Dell, I think.
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@gembo, by Edinburgh I mean any reasonable definition you can think of. Fife and further north are where I have seen them before.
@ejstubbs, Yes, that's why I changed my identification. It's colouring was similar to a gull but very definitely owl shapped.
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Long eared owls reported up Hunter’s Bog (edinburgh)
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I've seen short-eared owls on Braid Hill.
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Cinnabar moth appeared out of nowhere this evening while I was dealing with my wood pile. Maybe it had been hiding in one of the big split logs, as it seemed to prefer walking around on the sleeve of my fleece and was possibly the worst flier I've ever seen.
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@gembo I'm clearly being gaslighted by owls...
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scores of blue tit chicks at the feeders today
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@bax
I've written a plug-in that adds swearing to your posts.
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A weasel. And lots of Milkwort in the grass patches on the Lammermuirs.
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Bog cotton amazing just now out on the west Lothian commons and red moss
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