@Min: I can't wait for the WoL to reopen - used to seem them very regularly by one of the weirs (by the metal steps, upstream of Queensferry Road).
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Wildlife highlight of the day
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A Sparrowhawk zooming up the Innocent. And a little later on a pile of feathers.
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Was in the butchers at Marchmont earlier and he happened to mention he was going birdwatching during the obligatory "doing anything nice this weekend" small talk as he sliced the steak from a slab of cow.
Anyway, he recommended getting down to Musselburgh over the weekend as there were skuas and divers and some other migrating exotica visible from the sea wall of the ash pans.
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Cat - yesterday on north edinburgh path between D'Mains and Blackhall. Shot out the undergrowth in front of cyclist ahead of me resulting in a painfull spill for cyclist! He had to cycle to Musselburgh! - hope he made it before he stiffened up too much.
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Swallows still around.
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[s]Saw a pheasant on Lang Whang side road today. Reminds me I will post separAtely on closure of section of whang
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yesterday evening and this morning, a few squadrons of geese heading east.
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Ha I meant to find this thread yesterday to report the skeins of geese I saw from by the airfield on the way to Kirknewton yesterday morning.
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Cute. I love Curlews.
I was treated to a close sighting of some Long-Tailed Tits frolicking in a tree a few feet away from me. Normally they never stay still and I hardly get a good look at them but I got a great view of their pink fluffy selves today.
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"
Meanwhile, pest control experts said they expected vermin to flock."
Really?!
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RUBBISH collections are in a state of “total decay”
Badum TSH
Angry residents hit one councillor
Well that's just going too far.. :-(
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"Angry residents hit one councillor"
Think that's known as 'selective' quote...
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Isn't tasking the mick out of the EEN in the forum contributor rules? ;-)
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I read a tweet last week of someone who was cycling a bag of dirty nappies down to CEC HQ as they hadn't been picked up for 3 weeks.
If anyone has any bin collection issues, I couldn't possibly recommend doing anything similar.
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Owl, deer, badger in the last week. All road-kill.
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I haven't been in the UK
Azay-le-Rideau Kingfisher 3 by blackpuddinonnabike, on Flickr
Pau Coypu 3 by blackpuddinonnabike, on Flickr
Spanish Vulture 3 by blackpuddinonnabike, on Flickr
Pyrennean Red Kite by blackpuddinonnabike, on FlickrPosted 12 years ago # -
Ooh, gorgeous vulture.
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The vultures were stunning. Got treated to about 30 of them all in one place in the Tarn Gorges in France - a little far away, but breathtaking, then one took off from behind a hedge 10 yards form us. Immense birds, and utterly graceful in the air.
Then crossing the border to Spain got buzzed by 5 or 6 of them. They hung about juuuust long enough to stop the car, whack the big lens on, and shoot a couple of pics. Always but always against a horrible grey sky though.
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These are all Griffon Vultures....
Tarn Gorges Gathering Griffon Vultures by blackpuddinonnabike, on FlickrPosted 12 years ago # -
Awesome, it sounds amazing. I would love to see vultures flying.
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Loads of geese (I assume) honking their way west in great skeins on Sunday morning. Wonderful sight.
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They really are great to see aren't they? Got woken yesterday morning, just half-light, by a gaggle passing over the house really rather low. Thought for a moment it was our chooks getting spooked by something, then the honking got closer and closer.
Down at Musselburgh yesterday, in amongst a gazillion gulls and oystercatchers there were a good few cormorants airing their wings, with a heron sleeping in the middle of them; as well as a couple of red-throated divers/loons quite close offshore; and good numbers of velvet scoters sitting out to sea. Couple of guillemots as well; and pipits. Was pretty alive really.
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We wondered where exactly they were off to - I assue they go south for the winter, but these all looked like they were heading west over the Pentlands. Spectacular sight.
(OT I can't find the "I had a nice ride today" thread, I'm sure there is one somewhere...)
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I don't think geese fly south for the winter, just move from one feeding ground to another.
Those vultures must have been an amazing sight.
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Would depend on the geese. Barnacles and pink-foots fly south for the winter, but from arctic-fringe parts more northern than Scotland, so appear here from the north and may appear to be heading south or east, but are at the end rather than start of migration. Our native greylags are generally resident, however are a bit transient in nature and will move more south and east to warmer localities for winter feeding. Not sure this counts as migration any more than going to Largs or Saltcoats for the day counts as emmigration.
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Swans :)
Swan Dunk by blackpuddinonnabike, on Flickr
Evil Night Swan by blackpuddinonnabike, on FlickrPosted 12 years ago # -
Nice swans
Saw a massive peloton of maybe 50 geese forming above my house at the weekend, I think the winter might be approaching
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Quite a complicated picture in Scotland on the greylag goose front. many wintering birds, some residents. Mixed in flocks with Canada geese at times.
In England, all largely resident and what RSPB call semi-Tame
If migrating to clyde coast resorts, avoid doing so in winter, very miserable and head for Largs rather than Saltcoats, one has a big pencil commemorating a victory over the Vikings in. 1263, Nardinis cafe re-opened and is the gateway to Millport. The other is in need of regeneration and a bit rough
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Been a while since I've seen something not only new to the Figgy, but new to me in general - there was a Pintail down there tonight.
Pintail by blackpuddinonnabike, on FlickrPosted 12 years ago #
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