A group of four or five hirundines hawking for insects yesterday, over fields near the stables on the track that runs from Braid Hills Drive to the Mortonhall camp site. At least two were definitely swallows. I therefore declare that summer is officially here.
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Wildlife highlight of the day
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We've seen plenty of birds bathing in the burn at Inch Park before, but never a baby great spotted woodpecker
Can't believe our luck
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Completely not bike related, but had my first ever definitive sighting of a Golden Eagle from near the summit of Sgurr Thuilm (one of the two Munros above Glenfinnan) on Friday.
Saturday's Munro took me to a count of 280 Munros (out of 282), and I've only ever had one other sighting of something that was far away but almost certainly an eagle, so this was very special.
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How exciting. Good luck on the last two.
I saw disappointingly little wildlife on my tour of Fife yesterday even away from the roads. Perhaps it was all hiding from the heat of the day.
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Nice @fimm!
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A snow bunting (we believe) on top on Ben Macdui
And a mink crossing the road on Sunday
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That reminds me; a hillwalking friend posted a photo of their camp near the Pools of Dee and commented that this was "where there is no bunting", so another friend responded with a lot of photos of Snow Buntings...
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@fimm - Enjoyed following your exploits on Strava over the weekend. Did you drive or train to Glenfinnan?
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Hi Frenchy, train all the way. We went to Inverie on Knoydart by train and boat, walked back to Glenfinnan over 3 days, then got the last train (by 10 minutes!) back to Fort William, where we stayed for two nights.
(I then got a coach back to Edinburgh. My friend lives in Inverness so came by coach from there.)
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Fantastic, thanks!
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Doggerland is fascinating. Would have made trips to the Netherlands much easier.
Before the Snow Roads, we went to the Loch of Kinnordy nature reserve. This is definitely worth a visit - lots to see. We saw a Marsh harrier pair hunting and an osprey hunting, amongst others.
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Two hedgehogs out at Mortonhall, seemingly nonchalant as several dozen excited greyhounds were walked/dragged past.
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The Kingsknowe Rat crossing the canal towpath at Kingsknowe.
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Yesterday: peregrine shadowing a loose flock of small birds, possibly meadow pipits, above the southern slopes of the north Pentland ridge. It eventually gave up and headed off SW-wards.
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Brush with death this morning. Thing was best part of 10cm long. Apex predator.
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If it's a female praying mantis, don't try and mate with it.
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Starting to see quite a few blackberries black and ready for picking. Looks like it might be a bumper year for fruits and berries, lots of rowans starting to look quite heavy with berries.
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Rode through Green Cleugh this morning, a few sand martins still around.
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Rats big as kittens on the canal towpath (words on new aign under a bridge).
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Went for a mini-stakeout off the woods over the burn from the bottom of our field, looking for Red Squirrels. None of them, but I’ll take a first Kingfisher seen here as a consolation. Fleeting but unmistakable
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Unexpected visitor in our garden yesterday afternoon, catching some rays after a short rain shower. Now, I'm no wildlife expert but I think that's one pretty chilled out dude...
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Nice views of an osprey at Threipmuir this morning. A regular birder there told me that there’s been one there for about two weeks, he thought it has been the same one. He also pointed out to me a whooper swan that has been there all summer, and showed me through his telescope a distant spotted redshank that he’d just noticed, apparently this is not at all common in these parts.
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Around 100 swallows on a wire near Temple this am.
A cup half full person would better use gannets as a guide to the summer/winter divide.
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Winters coming
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@steveo yes, when the gannets have gone
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