@jdanielp - I saw one off the Norfolk coast path and was quite excited.
I looked them up and it seems they are increasing in the UK in the warmer climate.
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Wildlife highlight of the day
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Posted 1 month ago #
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Little Egrets found in Scotland, maybe even Great Egrets. Not Cattle Egrets. They are all herons. Eat fish. Our own grey heron will of course also eat a rat.
I think there are storks in nScotland [need to check]. Ah no storks last seen nesting in Britain atop St giles. In. 1416.
Cranes though we have 5 pairs and four chicks.
I dont think there are Spoonbills in Scotland Norfolk/Suffolk teeming with all these birdies.
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Goosander(/merganser) diving on The Loch at Heriot-Watt today.
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There are loads of goosanders on the canal now.
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And one otter! Spotted around 18:00 just east of the Scott Russell Aqueduct.
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Bats whizzing around over the canal as I cycled home early yesterday evening.
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A kingfisher on a high branch over the canal at Hermiston House this morning. I heard it chirping so scanned the far bank of the canal without success before looking up and finally spotting it.
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One of fimm's occasional non-cycling-related highlights - large bird, which most people in the party seemed to think was an eagle, in the hills to the southeast of Loch Tay on Saturday.
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Craig Bennett, the chief executive of the Wildlife Trusts, told the Guardian: “Our vision is to create an absolutely astonishing national flagship for nature recovery. It will be around two-and-a-half times the size of the [rewilded] Knepp estate and we are very excited to get ecosystems working again. If we get the whole site we will be looking at 9,500 acres.”
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A kestrel beating the air over Roseburn Park - the first time I've seen one there. It perched on a branch and then a crow chased it off.
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Reasonable sized skein of geese over Heriot-Watt this afternoon.
Posted 3 weeks ago # -
Bittern spotted. In Fife. Quite a rarity. Not bombing til Spring
Posted 3 weeks ago # -
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A lot of the problems, I’m told, started with Margaret Thatcher.
In 1984, her Conservative government scrapped the three-mile inshore limit, which for nearly a hundred years had protected coastal waters from bottom-trawling fishing boats. That decision changed the world below the waves.
“Initially, catches for the commercial sector went up because they had access to new grounds, but then they dramatically crashed - and basically that was the collapse of commercial fish stocks in the Clyde.”
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(Herald)
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Most problems can be traced to THatcher
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Disturbed a barn owl this morning, leading to it flying past my head, not quite at touching distance.
Posted 3 weeks ago # -
@Frenchy I blame THatcher
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I will pass that on to the owl if I see them again.
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@Frenchy, any word back from the owl. Owls are wise. THey will know about the troubles THstcher started or us all. They told me about Terry Wogan owning all the trees.
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No word from the owls, but the sparrowhawk that's currently sitting on my neighbours fence says it was definitely THatcher.
Posted 2 weeks ago # -
Thanks @Frenchy, i had a sparrowhawk overtake me on the A70 flyover onto the canal also confirm this.
Posted 2 weeks ago # -
A kingfisher at Kingsknowe.
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