I'd love to know where those two lynx were obtained to release. Surely all lynx in the country are accounted for, so they must have been smuggled in somehow? Can't be easy to smuggle in two lynx!
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Wildlife highlight of the day
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Posted 5 months ago #
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Video here; they seem very tame. Suspect someone who had them as exotic pets has released them when they got too big, rather than it being an deliberate attempt at reintroduction.
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"Two more lynx spotted in Cairngorms – one day after first pair captured"
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They breed quickly
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Lynx Linked
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I wonder if they were released at the same time or if it's a copy cat...
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He-he-he
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Three herons spread out along the canal between town and Heriot-Watt this morning, continuning a similar pattern that had been established towards the end of last year. Unusually, I also saw three herons in flight as I was driving up from Preston to Edinburgh on Sunday, two of which swooped so low over the northbound lane of the fairly quiet motorway that I was mildly concerned about hitting them but fortunately didn't. The other was at Lamancha.
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As I was cycling home along the canal towapth in the dark last night I heard something making a lot of noise progressing along the far side of the canal heading out of town around Kingsknowe. I did stop and tried to illumintate it with my front light, but I failed to spot anything obvious. It sounded like it was moving fast, breaking the ice as it went, so was presumably in and out of the water, and hence difficult to keep track of. I'm going to optimistically guess that it was an otter... The Kingsknowe Rat should clearly not be ruled out, but despite its prodigious size I'm not sure that it would've been able to make that much noise!
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@jdanielp interesting
As I was cycling along the canal towpath Monday morning I heard a racket but it was one I recognised and I remarked to Pietro who had just overtaken me [maybe on an electric bike but maybe not as I am still weakened from lurgy] ah here comes a guy or gal with studded tyres. Turned out it was @Dave on his nice fixie/single speed.
We chatted as human beings so not wildlife thread. But @Dave had a call to host so I was toast
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A kingfisher perched on a branch in one of the bushes that hangs over the canal just along from the Tesco approaching Meggetland.
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Kingfisher in the exact same place again today. Has it moved since Tuesday? I'm confident that it isn't merely blue and orange rubbish.
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@jdp - dont you have form though? Reporting a pool shoe for weeks? As A KF?
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@gembo I'm not sure what you're talking about, but I did briefly wonder if the model sheep in the garden by the railway bridge at Kingsknowe was real yet always happened to be in the same place.
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The Kingfisher was back in place again today after having been absent yesterday. There was also a cormorant fishing at Meggetland today.
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Three deer in the woods at the corner of Duddingston Road and Milton Road West.
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One of the magpies that nest in the tree down the road, attempting to remove a twig from the branch of the tree in our garden. It was very persistent, and eventually succeeded.
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@fimm, check your jewellry and coins. That was the decoy Magpie whilst the others came down yer lum to rob ye.
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A parakeet on my parents' bird feeder this morning and a turtle or terrapin sploshing from a floating log into the Lancaster Canal as I passed on the way to the railway station this afternoon.
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Grey wagtail on the NEPN at Trinity this morning
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Sparrowhawk* circling over our bit of Fairmilehead, being mobbed quite aggressively by a crow. After a few minutes they went their separate ways, seemingly none the worse for their little tussle.
* As far as I could tell, given that they were quite high up and against a background of bright white clouds. Definitely not a kestrel going by its size cf the crow, and the shape of its wings. Too small for a buzzard, again sizewise cf the crow. (The crow was definitely a crow, based on its shape and its calls, and its aerobatic skills.)
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Yesterday on way to work i observed a gooseander scratching its ears with its feet. Do ducks have ears and indeed feet. I was mental and made me laugh. Then last night on way home from band practice about 9.30pm at murrayfield exit onto Baird Drive a fox bold as brass ran off in front of me. Then on the currie Balerno borderlands just before 10 pm a badger scuttled in front of me. They are useless at crossing roads.
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Yesterday I saw a Jay [smashing down Brasted Chart on a lecky Brompton back towards London from Kent]. Was beauty right in front of me on the road. Came out of the Octavia Hill woods - spotted me and flew back. In.
I did see one in a tree many moons ago beyond the source of the WoL at Colzium and a reliable source reveals they are at Craigmillar Castle
the most colourful of Corvids
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On the lookout for swifts and I spotted a bright green parakeet flying over our garden. Apparently has been spotted at Duddingston Loch a few times over the last 5 years: https://media.ebird.org/catalog?birdOnly=true&taxonCode=rorpar&mediaType=photo®ionCode=L1880884&sort=rating_rank_desc
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I think that was a sparrowhawk that went over my head on the east side of Arthur's Seat.
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Just remembered a wildlife highlight during my Bank Holiday Monday donder along the Burdiehouse Burn. On reaching Ellen's Glen Loan I stopped at the bridge over the burn to check if anything interesting was to be seen. Spotted two grey wagtails perched together on a rock in mid-stream*, wagging away. One adult and one, obvious from its much more dowdy plumage, a recent fledgling. The adult took to the air and set about busily catching flying insects - of which there were a fair number - before delivering them back to its hungry offspring.
(On a related note: I do wish something could be done about the crossing of Lasswade Road which is required in order to follow the burn from Burdiehouse Road to Ellen's Glen and back. It's a 40mph limit and the road approaches the bridge over the burn downhill in both directions, so traffic is usually going pretty quick at exactly the point where pedestrians are going to want to cross. It's even worse on a bike given that access to the path downstream from the bridge requires riding up the hill towards Lasswade, then somehow accessing a narrow, gated, conflict-prone path back down towards the burn. There is no dropped kerb at the gap in the railings - which is anyway partially obstructed by a waste bin - nor for a good way further up the hill, so there's no short way back to the burn without either stopping at the kerb and lifting the bike, or approaching the kerb at a more direct angle and hopping up, both with the strong likelihood of impatient 40mph traffic up your backside. Altogether, not a whole lot of fun.)
* Not that there was all that much "stream", given the absence of rainfall recently.
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@ejstubbs - yes, nasty crossing that.
The Pentlands to Porty proposals include an "ambitious" plan to replace the existing pipe culvert with a bridge which would allow a continuous path underneath.
Link to relevant section of the proposal.
Project page
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