Fox cub ambling through the woods between the Murrays and Burdiehouse Burn.
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@Frenchy
Nice. My mate has planted a cherry tree there and challenged me to find it.
Our fox cub's leg seems to have healed at last. Or it has died and been replaced.
@Arellcat
Karma will see you good on that one.
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Keep a look out for white tailed eagles. One possibly sighted in Edinburgh on Thursday (Twitter). I am 80% sure I saw one yesterday near Temple. And there is film near Dirleton today https://twitter.com/andybevan87/status/1276857540815532032
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Second day in a row we've spotted a fox on the morning walk - an adult this time.
Also a bullfinch enjoying its breakfast on the Drum Street cycle ramp.
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@amir
Fantastic! That is indeed a white-tail. They've been coming steadily eastwards for years. Coast-to-coast is an afternoon jaunt for one of those things and they've bred in the Angus Glens and Fife before (one male servicing two females).
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May be the Brougton one is also the white tail?
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Is stinky sea vulture at Broughton? I did see an eagle at Leadhills but I was directing my automobile and did not able to say what kind.
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4x4 woman at Broughton last Saturday saying eagle being spotted. I suggested it would be exterminated and she said the gamekeepers like it.
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No mistaking my sighting for a golden Eagle. More lie a heron in its flight. Impression of weight. More of an Audax type of bird.
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They are bigger for sure and their wing tips flare and bend
The footage on twitter has the Eagle scaring the bejesus out of all the other birds.
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White tails notorious for making other birds scatter in a sweaty panic.
The Tentsmuir bird lived off greater black-backed gulls which had got complacent in the three hundred years of the eagle's absence.
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Fox with rabbit in mouth, in countryside near Gorebridge. See us, drops rabbit, runs off. I hope it went back afterwards, looked like a fine Sunday dinner
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@amir
No doubt whatsoever. Unless you took it for your dinner.
Wild thyme in bloom around the summit cone of Arthur's Seat.
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Swallow feeding centimetres above the grass at impossible speeds in Figgy Park this afternoon, zipping back and forth around us as we watched.
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Wild thyme, gorgeous. Reminds me of walks at St Abbs
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Apparently the Eagle has been seen out north berwick way again today.
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Some positive action to help reduce Swift decline;-
Also, saw some Early Purple Orchids near the highest point of the moor road between West Linton and Penicuik.
Cheers
ColinPosted 4 years ago # -
Massive buzzard at West Causewayend (west of Harperrig)
Mentioned it before when I thought it was impersonating a red kite, now I am wondering if it is impersonating the eagle
Very flared wing tips, very fan tailed
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Spotted this year's buzzard nest on Craigmillar hill at long last.
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Buzzard near Garvald. I was looking out for the eagle.
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When lockdown started I decided, as we couldn't go walking out in the countryside, the main aim of which for me is seeking out wildlife; and we had to cancel our annual sojourn to the Western Isles, meaning missing out on the likes of Cuckoos and Corncrakes - I decided I would try to record every species in my back garden.
Set myself an ambitious target of 100 different species. Currently sitting at 110....
I'd never have come across the likes of an F Winged Barklouse or Common Hoverfly Parasitoid Wasp without this. So silver linings and all that.
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“I'd never have come across the likes of an F Winged Barklouse“
I’d never have heard of one!
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Stymied myself slightly by only counting species I got photos of as well, so the actual count is higher, but in some cases my trigger finger not quite quick enough.
Highly recommend the 'Seek' app for identification purposes though. Don't always get right down to species, but gives enough of a hint to look in the right place in books.
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Any Waterboatmen?
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Don't have a pond....
(over the wall does, so Mallards are on the list, but the Heron has been notably absent - mind you, over the wall have a huge, pristine garden and, it seems, some sort of cap gun type affair to scare off ANY wildlife they see).
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Mallards not scared of caps?
Summer of 76, you could move the white stones round in the Hot pavement tar to make rude words and every so often fire your cowboy gun with its full roll of caps, breaK a Macowans Highland Toffee on the kerb and share it with your pal to keep you going until lunch and cycle your Raleigh Chico down Braehead Ave. hoping the brakes would work at the bottom
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Oh they are, they just dip n' go.
Summer of '76 I was.... 2 months old ;)
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@Wilmer
nice, our 11s might be aligning this year then
THat summer [or indeed I might get corrected to the next summer, or the next spring even Publication date: 26 February 1977 to present] I bought the first 5 copies of 2000A.D. - these would be worth pounds if I had not opened the spy kit etc
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I would like to experience the smell of a cap gun fight on a hot day at least once more before I die. I feel a haiku coming on.
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I love the smell of capo explosive in the morning as Rober Duvall said in Apocalypse Now
I preferred the caps on a strip rather than disc, more bang for your buck
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