Which TV show of the 1970s did the cormorant Graculus feature in?
Also which TV show of the 1970s did the wooden woodpecker Professor Yaffle appear in?
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I know the answer to the second - my sister's fav. The first rings a bell but without googling ...
This morning I saw an antlered roe deer looking quizzically at me about 10m away.
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I was going to suggest Monty Python's Flying Circus for TV show number one, although the cormorant having a name tended to suggest otherwise and indeed now I think about it I may actually be thinking about The Meaning of Life (which was in 1983) rather than the TV show itself. Hmm.
Professor Yaffle definitely appeared in Bagpuss though.
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Oh, and the only benefit to being caught in the post thunderstorm rain last night was that while stopping briefly under the first bridge on the way into town on the canal (joining at Hermiston House Road) to properly deploy my waterproof jacket, I spotted a kingfisher skim by over the water for the first time in several months...
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Excellent news, I haven't seen it for ages either, I'd assumed that it had moved on
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Noggin the Nog had cormorants I seem to remember
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Yes the Borg group mind have answered
Graculus the cormorant in noggin the nog and Yaffle in bagpuss.
Yaffle being a British dialect name for the green woodpecker
Deer close up can be amazing. The one that walked through bottom wilder bit of my garden was something. The one in the garden at dawn in north uist full monarch of the glen something else. Prefer them bounding away rather than running alongside which I had one early morning on Lang Whang though it was over the fence.
See the Baxter clip,on youtube where the dog panics big herd in Richmond park, scary
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Spotted yellow wagtail doing some brilliant tumbling in the pentlands at the waterfall on the way to loganlea
Also green hairstreak butterfly and many newts at redmoss
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Four llamas in field off the lymphoy road, bit further east than the new rugby pitch
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Monday morning excitement as a wee bird flew into the office. Don't know what it was but it was more interesting than the report I was reading. Eventually found its way out.
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A dipper on the way into work and a wheatear on the way home, not bad for a city commute.
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@chdot Awwww, cute.... Canal somewhere?
We saw our first ducklings of the year on the canal on Sunday. 11 little balls of fluff all milling around
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@fimm I'm guessing Craiglockhart Pond. There are cygnets in the nest on the island in the loch at Heriot-Watt now too although I haven't seen them yet myself. I've yet to see any on the canal so far this year, although I have seen groups of ducklings on and off, but not every day.
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Peacock on the Innocent this morning. Not technically 'wild'life I suppose? It also had very poor shared path etiquette but eventually stepped aside into the undergrowth.
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According to the news, there's a hoopoe to be seen (/heard?) around Innerleithen.
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Yesterday around 9.30a.m. Young deer on the cycle path at colinton. Very skittish.
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Osprey fishing in Glen Devon, several cuckoo's e.g above Pitochry, several roe deer, dead red deer and a bee in my helmet. Oh and lot of river/loch based parties.
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A whitethroat toiling to carry nesting material on the Braid Hills bridle path. Second brood under way - good news.
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I enjoyed a cycle in rural Perthshire yesterday, heading up by the Tay, out towards the start of the hills to the northwest and then back around the Almond valley. There were too many birds for me even to try to identify, but a buzzard, the sound of a cuckoo, curlews, heron, lapwings, a ridiculous number of oystercatchers, pheasants and a few swallows were all spotted. A pair of lapwings successfully defended their young from a weasel! There were also some friendly horses leaning over a gate to say hello and signs for red squirrels, but sadly no squirrels actually around.
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Bumblebees under my shed.
Very busy bees they are too.
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During my century ride yesterday, I stopped for a short water break at Kingscavil and watched a buzzard rise 200 feet or more purely using the thermals. On the Forth-Clyde and Union canals, plenty of rabbits, including a black one, a yellow wagtail, pigeons & crows galore (of various kinds, wrens and a pair of herons.
The first heron was as surprised as me when I cycled passed it no more than5 feet away! I've never got that close to one before. It just stood there instead of flying off. Its mate was a little closer to the path so as I approached it decided to take off.
Finally, just as big a surprise was nearly running over a swallow! It had decided to have a rest on one of the duty sections of the towpath east of Bonnybridge. Perhaps it had been having a sandbath just before I approached, or maybe it was just sunbathing!
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Not really wildlife, but a gent releasing a score of racing pigeons from wicker baskets on Gogar Station Road where it crosses the canal.
He was proudly watching them circle, presumably setting their compasses for home. Here's hoping the Pentlands peregrine pair weren't watching them them too.
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Nigel Boothman (@Gnige)
05/06/2014 12:54
Edinburgh tram has given me a view of a grazing deer and two sulky buzzards. Worth the extra quid over the airport bus."
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I've been noticing quite a lot of black wormy things (possibly leeches based on the way that they're moving, although I'm not entire sure) that have been trying to make it across the towpath (away from the canal) in the last few days along the section where the canal swings around with the city bypass up towards Calder Road. It seems that quite a lot of them haven't been making it for one reason or another (I fear I may have run over a few already), but that is to the benefit of the birds.
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@jdanielp
could be moth or other similar larvae, which also move in a looping manner similar to a leech.
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Many brown slugs up the meggetgate.
Disgusting
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Bit of a lowlight, actually.
There have been horses on the towpath again. I've not seen the horses, just the evidence of their passing. I don't mean hoofprints.
That's the second time in about a week. The trouble is that the evidence is usually in the middle of the path and extends for a considerable width and length...
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Quite significant on the WoL path too. I would say large obstacles. And then there are the horses themselves.
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