Well yes, depends how how much the weather has harmed other wildlife and also how much lack of tramping/shooting will benefit wild wildlife.
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May or may not benefit raptors.
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Rely on the casual work a day’s shooting brings
Ha ha
The poor lad I know who went beating in Balerno was paid in Grouse.
How can he buy his weed with that?
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What’s the going barter rate??
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For payment for beater duty - as many grouse as you like as they are all going in a big hole
For buying weed? payment is not accepted in Grouse.
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Dolphins between Broughty Ferry and Tayport this morning
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A rabbit has been wandering around our street the last few days, including just sitting in our front garden.
Which would be great if our dogs didn't go daft every time they saw it...
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Goldfinches, adult and juvenile, squabbling round the feeders.
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A wee puddock in Devilla Forest.
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Two foxes and a small deer (separately) while I was mountainbiking round Mortonhall and the Braids last week.
Another fox on the road near Harlaw yesterday evening.
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Half a dozen bats around the Gilmerton-Roslin cycle path this evening. Or maybe just the same two were following me.
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@frenchy, my pal Joe has a bat detector will tell you their names and everything
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Heading towards Gifford yesterday and came across a hare on the road. It proceeded to run a away along the road. Kids, obviously, decided only thing to do was give chase. Were on downhill section and managed to keep up for maybe 500m, poor thing was too daft/terrified to get off the road. We finally lost it when the road crossed a bridge on a bend and as the road started to rise on the other side it left us behind.
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Swallows massing in great numbers at Cadrona yesterday to watch Tweedlove then head south for the winter
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Flock of around 30 to 40 lapwings rising up out of a field near Linlithgow this afternoon. Heartening sight, given the worrying decline in lapwing numbers recently.
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The Affric Highlands initiative aims to increase connected habitats and species diversity over an area of 200,000 hectares (500,000 acres), incorporating Kintail mountain range, and glens Cannich, Moriston and Shiel. Plans include planting trees, enhancing river corridors, restoring peat bogs and creating nature-friendly farming practices.
The project has been launched after two years of conversations and meetings between local communities and conservationists from rewilding charity Trees for Life. Similar to the WildEast project in East Anglia, it is a community-led effort to restore nature over a large area, which organisers hope will be a catalyst for social and economic regeneration.
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The geese are back.
Plus a couple of fine wheatears
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Spotted a skein of geese heading SW over the north Pentland ridge yesterday lunchtime, when it was blowing quite hard. The formation fell in to considerable disarray as it passed over Allermuir, I suspect because they were not prepared for the strongly gusting updraft that they would have met as they approached the summit. Order was restored shortly afterwards, however.
Just had two skeins fly over the house as I was typing this!
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Mammal sighting in the canal yesterday afternoon: quite otter-like in that what caught my eye was just the top of the animal's head as it swam along, then it dived as I got closer. Not confident enough to say that it was an otter, though; it seemed a bit small for a start - maybe a young one? The most obvious likely alternative would be a brown rat, but the swimming style didn't seem very rat-like, and reading around suggests that rats tend not to dive when disturbed. Which would seem to leave either mink or water vole as the other possibilities. Water vole would be amazing, but I suspect vanishingly unlikely, unless anyone knows of previous sightings of water voles on the canal? Then again, I don't recall hearing of mink sightings along the canal either.
So maybe it was just a rat after all...
Update: I found this reported sighting of a water vole on the Union Canal, complete with photo, from July this year. Which might shift the balance of probabilities a bit...
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Big walk over the moorfoots today. Bunch of people out trying relatively unsuccessfully to find grouse to shoot but they had all disappeared when the winter didn’t clear up in time. Not too keen on indiscriminate killing of birds for entertainment but I held my tongue. Gamekeeper had 2 falcons with him which we got to see up close. Beautiful birds.
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Second week in a row the Granites Buzzard pretending to be a red kite. Soaring fantail everything, just not red.
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@chdot, is that around Blackness? There were 4 when we passed on Friday.
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Brown hare ambling along Riverside Road yesterday evening as I was having a nosey around the MoD's "ghost village" of empty married quarters.
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“is that around Blackness?“
No
Other side of the river.
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Just like Autumnwatch at Gladhouse with the sounds of red deer stags from the farm and geese honking overhead. Certainly better than the other sounds of autumn, howling gales and downpours
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Without any of the pressures of commercial fishing, researchers found that the biomass of pelagic forage fish – such as herring and sprat, prey for predators including marine mammals and larger fish – is now four times greater than it was in the 1980s. But where herring was the dominant species then, now it is sprat.
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Red squirrel south of Broughton
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