“they are not renowned for expertise in wildlife identification“
Red squirrels are quite distinctive.
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Posted 3 years ago #
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Some Greys have bit of red
No red have a bit of grey?
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Red squirrel with a grey coat
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http://www.northernredsquirrels.org.uk/report-sightings/red-or-grey/
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Red squirrel with a grey coat.aye right. Just very very dark red.
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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)
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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.
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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.
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Observed otter, in the Niddrie Burn running though Little France. Or rather an otter observed me!
Robert
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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.
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@Roibeard
That is exceptional. Near the reed bed by any chance?
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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
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Wonderful.
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Otters famous for Showboating(football reference)
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That's dolphins mate. Big bald otters with no legs and bulbous foreheads.
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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.
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By Babel Fish, for which they were especially grateful as they taste lovely.
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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.
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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?
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Nature red in tooth and claw
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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.
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First they corner the deodorant market now they want reintroduced into the highlands to eat our deer.
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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.
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Sounds like the other if the dug is interested?
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It is very much fox-on-fox action season. Our vixen is going off her nut.
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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?
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Grey squirrels?
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I hear that the Dunsapie Otters were on Winterwatch last night.
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