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  1. chdot
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    “they are not renowned for expertise in wildlife identification“

    Red squirrels are quite distinctive.

    Posted 3 years ago #
  2. gembo
    Member

    Some Greys have bit of red

    No red have a bit of grey?

    Posted 3 years ago #
  3. chdot
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    Red squirrel with a grey coat

    http://www.northernredsquirrels.org.uk/report-sightings/red-or-grey/

    Posted 3 years ago #
  4. gembo
    Member

    Red squirrel with a grey coat.aye right. Just very very dark red.

    Posted 3 years ago #
  5. boothym
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    Couple of sightings in Dalgety Bay and Aberdour according to the map on https://scottishsquirrels.org.uk/squirrel-sightings/ (select 2020)

    Posted 3 years ago #
  6. I were right about that saddle
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    I once caused the crest of the Edinburgh Sparrowhawks group to fall by explaining that their map of sightings was in fact a map of the middle class areas of Edinburgh.

    Posted 3 years ago #
  7. gembo
    Member

    Oooh nice one.

    You see a similar pattern with Covid and wealth or people who argue for raising school entry age and wealth (misrepresented recently as parent power on nursery retention which the stoopid Scottish Govt have agreed to)

    That is another issue in a small country -persistent middle class lobbying of govt can get results - see also GIRFEC, where it’s legislative aspect was brought down by very determined middle class and Christian Right wing combo.

    Posted 3 years ago #
  8. chdot
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  9. Roibeard
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    Observed otter, in the Niddrie Burn running though Little France. Or rather an otter observed me!

    Robert

    Posted 3 years ago #
  10. panyagua
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    @boothym

    Thanks for that link - I've added my sighting. The two Dalgety Bay sightings last year were in more or less the same place.

    Posted 3 years ago #
  11. I were right about that saddle
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    @Roibeard

    That is exceptional. Near the reed bed by any chance?

    Posted 3 years ago #
  12. Roibeard
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    No, just off Little France Drive, approximately here:

    https://goo.gl/maps/c4bCr3SbQq9htadq7

    Google name it as Burdiehouse Burn, but the OS have Niddrie Burn by that point.

    When we stopped to look for the source of the movement on the farside of the burn, it obliged by climbing out on the nearside to watch us!

    Robert

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

    Posted 3 years ago #
  14. gembo
    Member

    Otters famous for Showboating(football reference)

    Posted 3 years ago #
  15. I were right about that saddle
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    That's dolphins mate. Big bald otters with no legs and bulbous foreheads.

    Posted 3 years ago #
  16. gembo
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    Yes, their final message before heading to alpha Centauri was a particularly elaborate display which when finally translated (err, how?) was So long and thanks for all the fish.

    Posted 3 years ago #
  17. I were right about that saddle
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    By Babel Fish, for which they were especially grateful as they taste lovely.

    Posted 3 years ago #
  18. gembo
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    What Ford Prefect (not real name or was it) filmed it somehow and then it was eventually translated? After the world was destroyed?

    These Dentrassi must really hate the Vogons remains my favourite line. Applicable almost anywhere.

    Posted 3 years ago #
  19. I were right about that saddle
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    Went to see the snow and witnessed a pair of male greater spotted woodpeckers having a drumming duel. Also great tits loudly announcing an intention to engage in tit-on-tit action.

    Can spring be far behind?

    Posted 3 years ago #
  20. gembo
    Member

    Nature red in tooth and claw

    Posted 3 years ago #
  21. I were right about that saddle
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    They're sorting out their sexual needs peaceably, no violence man? Bit of drumming, bit of singing and the boys get the girls they're looking for and vice versa and it's all mellow in the woods.

    Posted 3 years ago #
  22. chdot
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  23. gembo
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    First they corner the deodorant market now they want reintroduced into the highlands to eat our deer.

    Posted 3 years ago #
  24. chdot
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  25. Frenchy
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    Two foxes on our street doing a recreation of a Benny Hill chase scene.

    I couldn't tell if the chaser was looking for a fight or a...the other thing, and the screeching noises didn't clear things up either.

    Dog very interested.

    Posted 3 years ago #
  26. gembo
    Member

    Sounds like the other if the dug is interested?

    Posted 3 years ago #
  27. I were right about that saddle
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    It is very much fox-on-fox action season. Our vixen is going off her nut.

    Posted 3 years ago #
  28. Frenchy
    Member

    Dug gets very interested in most furry things that are running around. Are you suggesting that she wants to do the other thing with squirrels?

    Posted 3 years ago #
  29. gembo
    Member

    Grey squirrels?

    Posted 3 years ago #
  30. jdanielp
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    I hear that the Dunsapie Otters were on Winterwatch last night.

    Posted 3 years ago #

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