Three Goosander on the canal yesterday morning. My first of the winter. One had a brown (rather than red) head - is that a juvenile?
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Females have gingery or rufous brown head
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Kingfisher on the west side of Aberlady Bay :)
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lorlane I think your last post might count as a haiku.
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Haha! I see what you mean :)
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A barn owl on Redstone Rig.
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Heron on WoL beside B&Q Powderhall on Monday lunchtime, followed by another heron on the canal near Meggetland on Tuesday morning.
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Only a short glimpse as it flew across the beam of my lights but pretty sure I saw a barn owl tonight. Top of Harlaw Road.
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I have finally spotted a kingfisher. By the Esk near the electric bridge in Musselburgh. Unmistakeable colour.
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North Sea oil platform owls released back into the wild
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-34880521
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Not one but two sparrowhawks circling the street as I left for work yesterday morning. An owl calling in the street just now.
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A good handful of red grouse heard & seen up on Hare Hill today, including a couple flying right overhead and one posing very handsomely on a nearby dyke. Plus 30+ lovely, noisy, whooper swans on the reservoir (the western bits by the bridge to the avenue), three startled snipe a-squelching, and a couple of wrens dotting in and out of a wall.
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Another sparrowhawk over the house a few mins ago. We go for months at a time without seeing one.
Goldfinches and redpolls feeding along Braid Burn through Oxgangs this morning.Posted 8 years ago # -
WFH today, my afternoon was brightened by a visit to the feeder from a small party of long tailed tits. When they weren't on the feeder they were hopping around the bare branches of an acer, looking absolutely wonderful.
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Oh I love them, they are so sweet.
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Green parrots in Battersea Park and then foxes on the beach at Hastings Old Town while I was away last week.
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Had to rescue a deer this afternoon, it had got a hind leg twisted in a barbed wire fence, not far from Buteland Farm. The poor thing was quite distressed, I tried to free it but couldn't on my own so retraced up to the farm and sought help there. Fortunately one of their staff was able to drop what they were doing and help out, we got it free and it ran off ok so no broken bones. It did have quite a nasty cut from the barbed wire, but there wasn't much we could do about that.
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Wasp in the living room this afternoon...
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A man goes into a pet shop and asks to buy a pet wasp. The pet shop owner is incredulous and says. Don"t be daft, we don't sell wasps, you can't have a wasp,as a pet. The man says, that's funny, there's one on the window
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Have to share this stunning kingfisher photograph:
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@Stickman whilst I can appreciate the effort involved in capturing that picture of the kingfisher diving into its own reflection, I much prefer many of his other pictures.
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At least one comorant fishing on the canal this morning. If it was just one, then its first dive was impressive; I spotted it when it went under as I was heading around the corner from the Calder Road Bridge and then saw one re-emerge on the far side of the Scott Russell Aqueduct.
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John stonehouse went swimming
Cause his life was a failure
He went in at Miami
And came out at AustraliaI saw the cormorant diving the other day too but did not see it come back up, they can swim a good league hence under water
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I was hopeful of a kingfisher spot this morning but no luck, although I did see one of the nearly fully grown cygnets having a bit of a stand off with the cormorant.
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For some reason my kingfishey sense was tingling as I approached Kingsknowe this morning; sure enough there was a kingfisher perched on a branch on the far side of the canal between the rail bridge and the train station. It is the first time that I've made a spot in this area.
I wonder if my brain is interpreting irridescent blue in the far distance, making me think of kingfishers before I'm consciously aware that I've actually 'spotted' one?
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Took the bus to Ocean Terminal today and walked back to Colinton via the WoL. Sightings included dabchick, quite a few goosanders ( the creamy peach pink/orange off white of the males looking magnificent in the dull winter light), a solitary female goldeneye, a gs woodpecker and lots of dippers. Was talking to the lady at the WoL visitor centre hearing all about their numerous kingfishers and the odd otter. Alas, no sign of either for me today. Or ever, in fact.
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An impressive rat whisking into the undergrowth at the east end of Glenogle Road.
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I startled a dopping (I Googled for the collective noun and this came up) of goosanders using my ding-dong bell as I cycled under the Yeaman Place canal bridge earlier.
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A brace of Purple Sandpipers on the beach yesterday morning. Also a couple of Tawny Owls later on.
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