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Wildlife highlight of the day

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  1. minus six
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    @wingpig

    jah richtig, das ist der finale of Gull Season 2

    just one more to go, mid-august haltestelle

    Posted 3 years ago #
  2. chdot
    Admin

    Posted 3 years ago #
  3. minus six
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    the horror

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  4. minus six
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    Some people tell me
    Home is in the sky

    In the sky lives a spy
    I want to be more like the ocean

    No talking man
    All action

    Posted 3 years ago #
  5. minus six
    Member

    Sister and her boyfriend slept in the park
    She had to leave home 'cause he was dark

    Now they parade around in New York with a baby boy
    He's gorgeous

    Ain't nobody leaving!

    Posted 3 years ago #
  6. minus six
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  7. minus six
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    I wish I knew everyone's nickname
    all their slang and all their sayings
    every way to show affection
    how to dress to fit the occasion

    and I wish we all waved

    Posted 3 years ago #
  8. Arellcat
    Moderator

    Two foxes out on the Loanhead to Roslin bicycle expressway earlier, plus a moggy out exploring. I didn't know till today that a fox's eyes light up yellow in the dark.

    Posted 3 years ago #
  9. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    Finally got the bins on a goshawk. Juvenile male.

    Also I think there may be a pair of hobbies somewhere near Loch Leven. Just my theory mind.

    Posted 3 years ago #
  10. paulmilne
    Member

    A hedgehog wandering down the courtyard path last night as I was engaged in online singing, so I couldn't dash out and get a closer look. Much bigger than I expected, longer legs. First I thought it was a cat. Then it disappeared and I didn't catch sight of it again.

    Posted 3 years ago #
  11. Rosie
    Member

    Rabbit happily grazing on Pansy Walk.

    Heron standing on one leg on the floodwall by Roseburn Park.

    Posted 3 years ago #
  12. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    Young female sparrowhawk just knocked a young blackbird down in the back garden. Never heard that before. She hit it very hard.

    Posted 3 years ago #
  13. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    Sat in my mate's back garden in Willowbrae drinking fine Polish and Scottish beers yesterday evening and an adult female goshawk soared over, bold as brass and clear as day.

    No reason at all a couple of pairs couldn't live discretely in Edinburgh.

    PS As I type this I can hear the death throes of a wood pigeon in next door's garden. I think a sparrowhawk just got it.

    Posted 3 years ago #
  14. gembo
    Member

    Cycling home from town along canal yesterday lunchtime on canal towpath just before bonnie prince Charlie aqueduct I glanced over to white tarpaulin covering a pile of something at end of a garden. A large fox was lying drying itself atop the pile. Brazen as.

    Posted 3 years ago #
  15. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    I opened the bedroom curtains to observe the lady cub, now almost full size though lanky, strolling up and down the wall. Half-hearted attempt to catch a squirrel which looked at her and said 'are you serious?'.

    Posted 3 years ago #
  16. Frenchy
    Member

    What was either a cormorant or an actual dragon flying over Drum estate this morning.

    Posted 3 years ago #
  17. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    Fancy pigeon just chased a squawking sparrowhawk over the house. Youngster - it has yet to learn that fancy pigeons are food.

    Posted 3 years ago #
  18. gembo
    Member

    Three jays a shrieking out beyond Murder Farm (Colzium by Harperig) also one angler

    Posted 3 years ago #
  19. I were right about that saddle
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    So I stepped outside and shrieked myself a jay.

    Posted 3 years ago #
  20. ejstubbs
    Member

    @Frenchy: What was either a cormorant or an actual dragon flying over Drum estate this morning.

    Graculus?

    (Although "graculus" is actually Latin for jackdaw, which explains its use in the binomial name of the alpine chough, which is quite jackdaw-like in some of its behaviour - particularly in its propensity to hang around human habitations, unlike Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax which is the species we get in the UK.)

    Posted 3 years ago #
  21. gembo
    Member

    @ejstubbs

    THe Postgate/Firmin genius in small films can never diminish

    Professor Augustus Barclay Yaffle in Bagpuss allegedly based on Bertrand Russell. Stern but ankle to be touched by beauty. Wooden bookend so absorbs knowledge from the books, shape of a woodpecker

    Yaffle is some dialect for Green Woodpecker

    Posted 3 years ago #
  22. amir
    Member

    Male marsh harrier quartering a cereal field, east of Newburgh in Fife. Wonderful

    Posted 3 years ago #
  23. I were right about that saddle
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    @amir

    Fantastic. Little corner of Norfolk is that.

    Posted 3 years ago #
  24. gembo
    Member

    They are big birdies for sure. Only ever spotted in Norfolk and suffolk

    Posted 3 years ago #
  25. amir
    Member

    I was surprised.

    Marsh Harrier are a scarce breeder and passage migrant in Scotland. Most of the breeding population is found within the River Tay reed beds bordering Perthshire & Fife. Trend production is therefore not feasible for this species.

    Posted 3 years ago #
  26. gembo
    Member

    Minimum number of young fledged 15-19 allmnear nRver TAY, THOUGH CLACKS has some action

    Picture on website is western isles which is anomalous but as Sandy said, Who knows where the wind blows

    Posted 3 years ago #
  27. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    All our bearded tits and bitterns are there too. I like to think there's a tiny patch of Cairngorm plateau somewhere in Norfolk with a pair of dotterels and a single confused blue hare.

    Posted 3 years ago #
  28. Rosie
    Member

    At around 4am I heard an owl. Toooo t't't toooo. I haven't heard one for decades.

    Posted 3 years ago #
  29. ejstubbs
    Member

    @gembo: ...as Sandy said, Who knows where the wind blows

    Er...no, I'm not going to bite this time. (And who knows, she might very well have said it at some point in her life.)

    Posted 3 years ago #
  30. gembo
    Member

    @ejstubbs - thank you I shall play Who knows where the time goes by Sandy Denny shortly in your honour

    Posted 3 years ago #

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