@wingpig
jah richtig, das ist der finale of Gull Season 2
just one more to go, mid-august haltestelle
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Wildlife highlight of the day
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Some people tell me
Home is in the skyIn the sky lives a spy
I want to be more like the oceanNo talking man
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Sister and her boyfriend slept in the park
She had to leave home 'cause he was darkNow they parade around in New York with a baby boy
He's gorgeousAin't nobody leaving!
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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 occasionand I wish we all waved
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Rabbit happily grazing on Pansy Walk.
Heron standing on one leg on the floodwall by Roseburn Park.
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Young female sparrowhawk just knocked a young blackbird down in the back garden. Never heard that before. She hit it very hard.
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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.
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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.
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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?'.
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What was either a cormorant or an actual dragon flying over Drum estate this morning.
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Fancy pigeon just chased a squawking sparrowhawk over the house. Youngster - it has yet to learn that fancy pigeons are food.
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Three jays a shrieking out beyond Murder Farm (Colzium by Harperig) also one angler
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So I stepped outside and shrieked myself a jay.
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@Frenchy: What was either a cormorant or an actual dragon flying over Drum estate this morning.
(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.)
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@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
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Male marsh harrier quartering a cereal field, east of Newburgh in Fife. Wonderful
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@amir
Fantastic. Little corner of Norfolk is that.
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They are big birdies for sure. Only ever spotted in Norfolk and suffolk
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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.
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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
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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.
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At around 4am I heard an owl. Toooo t't't toooo. I haven't heard one for decades.
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@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.)
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@ejstubbs - thank you I shall play Who knows where the time goes by Sandy Denny shortly in your honour
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