Quick question, saw a mink at Sandaig on the Glenelg peninsula today. The Scottish Mink Initiative doesn't appear to cover this area, and the Hebrides Mink Project only looks after the Outer Hebrides (had an interesting chat with a chap checking their traps out on Harris a couple of years ago). Anyone know of a group for sightings in the Glenelg area? (Planning on reporting to the SMI anyway if there's nowhere else)
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Skye & Lochalsh Environment Forum have (or had?) a mink monitoring programme.
The local Biodiversity Plan says "Scottish Natural Heritage, RSPB and
local mammal specialists are monitoring the
occurrence of mink within Skye & Lochalsh. SNH
operate a small scheme to assist in trapping
offending animals."Posted 8 years ago # -
Brilliant, thanks for that!
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We've got a couple of fantastic new murals in the Figgate Park, created by graffiti artist Ian Tayac who is based up in Dundee. Quite a few of my photos used, which is rather nice, but more chuffed to have been on the committee that organised this, especially after I saw it for the first time yesterday and could hear the great comments from people walking through what used to be a grey and tagged spot. We presented about this at the local primary schools as well (I was doing the wildlife bit) and got the kids to produce some great artwork to inspire the artist with what they liked about the park, and we've also got kids pointing out certain of the animals as being 'their bit'.
Mural2 by Anthony Robson, on Flickr
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Nice project - well worth the effort.
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We've got quite a lot of new stuff coming to the park. Virgin / Great North East / whatever they're called trains that have the Craigentinny Depot that borders the park are turning a huge axle set into a bird feeding station. Can't wait to see that once it's finished and in place.
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On the Water of Leith path. A couple of baby rabbits ran across the path. One hopped into the undergrowth but the other started running along the path, almost under my wheels. So I stopped. It stopped. It had a piece of grass hanging out of its mouth. I waited until it had stopped eating it and then moved slightly and it got the point that it would be safer diving into the undergrowth rather than weaving along a path with something 100 times its size on its heels. Very very cute.
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Fox pottering around the allotment at 1400. Didn't seem to want any of our slugs.
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I managed to count a total of six cygnets on the canal at Wester Hailes today. Does anyone have any higher bids?
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@jdanielp - Saw the same set of 6 cygnets. In fact I think I passed you chatting to a pedestrian just after the aquaduct? (I was fully loaded with 2 children, when I wobbled past)
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@chrisfl yes, that was me chatting to Big John who is a towpath regular. I'm afraid that I didn't spot you back, although I did see a Revolution Shadow belt-driven, hub geared bicycle, which I later saw locked at Heriot-Watt.
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We had seven cygnets on the Figgy. Initially. Two have made it.
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@jdanielp. I spotted those cygnets this morning too. They are new, aren't they? I was thinking a couple of months ago that we hadn't had any this year, but now we have.
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I took a longer way in this morning along the lanes around Ormiston. Plenty to enjoy including skylarks, yellowhammers (so evocative of summer) and hares. Spotted a domestic rabbit wandered onto the cycle path south of the Innocent Tunnel (not a euphemism)
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A fox, watching me from the far hedgeline of the small field that is opposite Hermiston House garden/the canal (bordering the M8).
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@Greenroofer I assume so, although they look rather on the larger side than I'd expect if they'd just hatched so I wonder if their parents were keeping them hidden away for a while from the foxes and other such things.
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'Bee highway' created in Oslo to give pollinators safe passage through the city
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A couple of red squirrels, a greater spotted woodpecker and numerous small but unidentifiable birds (to me at least). All seen from the wee hide at the David Marshall Lodge.
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Two teeny fox kits round the front of the house. Hoping they're with mum and she takes them on her usual patrol into the back garden. In all the years of watching the foxes here I've only ever seen them around the den half a mile away - never at the house.
Figgate Park is full of Greylag geese just now - flight feathers have been moulted for the annual 6 weeks or so of being grounded. And very nervous they look too...
Ding Ding by Anthony Robson, on Flickr
Greylags by Anthony Robson, on Flickr
Floating Goose by Anthony Robson, on Flickr
StepGoose by Anthony Robson, on Flickr
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Just had three adults and one of the kits in the back garden. The kit wouldn't sit still for photos, so only got the adults, but just lovely to be lying in the dark, just a metre away through the glass (yes, I'm obsessed by my foxes...)
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Night y'all
Fox3 by Anthony Robson, on Flickr
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Me speaking about bats in the Figgate Park to MyParkScotland :)
https://audioboom.com/boos/3318757-bat-boxes-for-figgate-park
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Seagulls and rats have trumped an initiative to clean up the city centre by “setting their watches” to match the timings of a new trade waste scheme.
Traders in Rose Street have reported that vermin are ready and waiting to attack and rip open bin bags after learning when the waste is allowed on to the key thoroughfare.
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Not a personal spot as such, but a link to an intriguing short documentary about notable 'wildlife' behaviour in Utrecht:
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Spotted vole scuttling across long dalmahoy tonight and before that two lads smoking the skunk next to their car
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Another vole, this time at East exit of the aqueduct. Earlier dead rat at hermiston. Finally, the smallest bunny kins ever at long dalmahoy. The road is being patched this week.
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I too saw the dead rat at Hermiston. Later, I saw a rather larger rat exit from the canal and head into the east end of Harrison Park prior to successfully high-fiving gembo.
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I must have a look for the Musselburgh parrot.
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An alive rat under one of the NEPN bridges. Might be on camera, too.
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