@shuggiet
Long time no post. What is the carrying technique? I have seen swans being captured on London Docks. Was a bit brutal.
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Grasp the neck then put arms around wings quickly before it flaps.. seems to work, and it was pretty docile but a heavy carry back into pond..
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Interesting. The swoons were captured with a lasso on a pole and lifted out of the water onto the key by their necks. Looked fatal but seems it doesn't harm them.
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Cygnets
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Yesterday a person hang gliding at hill end
A dear in the park at auchendinny
And
A pheasant on the asbestos hut at the Gladhouse turn
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First the cygnets escape and then this: Swan sale after Queen's gift leads to overpopulation
Of course there's also been several years of breeding in the interim. It seems they use a net to catch them.
I wasn't aware that the monarch's ownership of a swan end as soon as it crosses the border to Scotland or Wales.
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@ac Simpson, did not know swans were devolved
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I think the law may predate the union of the crowns.
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Ok, not straying down that one. Jamie Saxt etc
Union of the Crows I read that as
Lot of rooks in tree near the old Rosslyn Lee hospital the other day about 3pm.
On that route coming from Carrington, you do three sides of a square when straight on looks inviting but not on a road bike. That whole bit of country was looking Bonny and usually i have bonked after coming up the granites so have little energy left for sight seeing but the other day was a nice daunder.
Also before the hamlet of Loanstone on the slog up to the Gladhouse turn I also spotted a lone stone like those at Callanish.
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Both the seed feeders in my garden are empty this morning, having been filled only two days ago. They haven't been so well patronised for a long time. It was like Clapham Junction at rush hour on the sunflower kernel feeder the other day, with coal tits - a welcome returning species after several seasons' absence - queuing up for space on the perches. And we've had chaffinches on the feeders for the first time in ages as well.
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If Her Britannic Majesty crosses the border from England into Scotland with a swan under her arm she is transubstaniated from the head of the Church of England holding her personal property into a member of the Church of Scotland committing an offence under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981.
Though I expect in practice both theologians and naturalists would leave her to it.
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@ejsubbs - my feeders have been sprouting, they are so unused, after having been like KFC on a Friday night for ages.
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Madge owns all unmarked swans in UK waters? But only marks them as hers on the Thames
Historically swans not too dear but the ring pricey so just for toffs.
Of course Charles I and William Laud tried to impose the book of common prayer upon Scotland in 1637 and this led to the Covenanters And all the schisms found at the back of the Scottish Dictionary
United Free. continuing remain out opposed to state connection and standing for greater theological liberty. Basically them and the Church of Scotland oh yes and the Free Church and the stricter Free Presbyterians , the tiny remnants of The Reformed Presbyterians (splitters) original Secession Church aNd Scottish Episcopalians. If you wish to protest against the Synod of Whitby and Roman EAster. Otherwise many other faiths are available.
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The History of the Sufferings of the Church of Scotland from the Restoration to the Revolution
I'm sorry did you say 'revolution'? In Blighty? Surely not.
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Before it goes to amazon you get the splitters diagram for a nanosecond or maybe that is just if you are elect?
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Red squirrel crossing the road at Elibank. First one I've seen in a long time.
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Rufous bush Chat arrived in Stiffkey Norfolk, I have been there. Near where Jamiroquai landed his helicopter.
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Multi-V mega-skein of geese over Gore Glen this afternoon, heading east to west. Quantity of birds must have been well in to four figures. What is it about skeins of geese peacefully honking away amongst themselves that lifts the spirit?
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The shocking pink of three bullfinch out the kitchen window, they scampered when Mrs Garto arrived, also in pink
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Loads of geese, as ejstubbs reports, honking away over Midlothian - I was heading back towards Roslyn at that point.
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I visited
HundredSeven Acre Wood yesterday and saw a badger, two owls, a fox and a pair of rabbits. Alas they were only carved woodenbookendsornaments in the shape of animals.Posted 4 years ago # -
On Corstorphine Hill and saw in the zoo 2 tall grey goats with beige socks and long, long horns, also a zebra.
Being in enclosures, do they count as wild? Those goats did look as if they would be pretty fierce if you got on the wrong side of them, and zebras are untameable.
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@Rosie
There are quite a few feral goats in Scotland's hills and they walk about like they are basically untouchable. They smell awful and I have always been happy to assume they are basically too dangerous for anything without a gun to bother.
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@amir :-) - Gerald did cross my mind.
@IWRATS:- we did have herd of feral goats on our farm when I was a child. We got a pair to keep down the scrub. They multiplied. I'd made friends with their first kid, Ellie Mae, and when we saw the herd of rank beasts running about the farm, Ellie Mae would still come to my call.
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A dead rat at the side of the Innocent, on the left heading townwards just before the bend to the tunnel. Quite chunky-looking, so presumably subject to dog or poison rather than the cold. Could conceivably have been battered off the road by a vehicle then retrieved by a dog.
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As well as the large numbers of pf geese, on my pseudo commute excusions into deep Midlothian, I have been seeing large flocks of thrushes (some of which identified as fieldfares).
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Saw a fox creeping into someone's garden at 6 am this morning as I rode past in the dark.
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More than 20 pheasants near meander of water of leith Glenbrook hamlet just there
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Talking of swan removal..
https://twitter.com/DurhamWASP/status/1320304643277193218/photo/1
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