It was more domesticated than wild but I just spotted an horse on Lothian Road. Despite being piloted by a qualified police officer it was still naughtily-stopped in the red bicycle-zone heading south across the Morrison/Bread St junction.
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Wildlife highlight of the day
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Hmmm, just got a video of the cat chasing the fox out of the garden again...
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Et voila...
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surely it should be the fox in the red corner! Full marks to Isla anyway.
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"Frugal doctor who shunned other people leaves fortune to animals"
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/news/Frugal-doctor-who-shunned-other.6726859.jp
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Hehehe, cute video. :-) Cat 1 Fox 0.
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An emerging carpet of crocuses / croci / crocosilia at the foot of Marchmont Road. Have told myself last 2 days to pack my camera and get an early morning shot but have failed on 2 consecutive mornings to either get up early enough or take the camera.
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Funnily enough I was pondering getting up early tomorrow to get some 'Copenhagenized' cyclists heading up MMW. Takeaway coffee and snack and an hour snapping cool looking cyclists, what's not to like?
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Want me to cycle up and down MMW in lycra on a road bike to mix things up a little?
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"What's not to like?
Croci; they always look a bit too nailed-on. And cool-looking cyclists; perhaps I subconsciously envy their ability to not turn into massive lumps of sweat when wearing several layers of tweed.
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"Anth, why are you taking lots of photographs of that man in lycra"
"Erm...."
Yeah, cool!
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Went along melville drive from east to MMW this am and wished I had a helmet cam to capture the crocuses as I went along. If anyone does get a good shot in next few days, could you send me a copy? My mum would like to see it.
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SRD will do! If I can get home sharpish enough this evening may be able to capture them in evening light - if the clouds stay away today (was awfully dull last night). Can then try again tomorrow to get the morning light.
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Deer seen behind Craigmillar Castle at about 7.30 this morning.
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The light defeated my mobile phone camera trying to snap the crocodilia this evening. Will aim to get out of bed early-ish tomorrow and do some flower-spotting on the meadows. And maybe photograph photographers trying to photograph cyclists...
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There's two cormorants or shags on the canal in Wester Hailes at the moment. I'm not expert enough to tell the difference. I don't think they're an 'item', as they aren't near each other, so I wouldn't say they are a pair, as such. Just good friends.
The common cormorant or shag
Lays eggs inside a paper bag
The reason you will see no doubt
It is to keep the lightning out
But what these unobservant birds
Have never noticed is that herds
Of wandering bears may come with buns
And steal the bags to hold the crumbs.This morning there was a buzzard in a field just beyond the Bypass. It wasn't on a fence post like they normally are, but actually sitting on the ground. It didn't seem to be doing anything in particular.
It was absolutely beautiful out this morning, and what with the wildlife and the dawn light I arrived at work feeling remarkably pleased with myself. You never get that in a car or on the bus.
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"It wasn't on a fence post like they normally are, but actually sitting on the ground."
Buzzards may be magnificent birds of prey but they will eat earthworms. It is great to see so many of them these days. When I was a wee un they were quite uncommon.
I too am loving this time of year - it's great.
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Passed a fox this morning at about 06:35AM which was walking along the top of the Comely Bank cemetery wall. The road side of the wall is over six feet high so the fox was up higher than me when I passed. Must have jumped onto a gravestone on the other side of the wall then hopped up onto the wall.
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Not the best photos as the light was rapidly dying on me, but who can't say seeing these colourful wee chaps beginning to bloom isn't a welcome sign after a particularly harsh winter?
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Parakeets... There are apparently loads in a park here (like in the south of England) so tomorrow I might have it as a spot on a bike...
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Skylark singing over a field at the roundabout between Inveresk and Carberry as I headed out to the Super6 races this morning about 8AM (not to race!)
Startled 7 roe deer on the cycle path between Smeaton Shaw and Smeaton (where the electricity substation is). First 5 bolted across the path infront of me. Last 2 stopped dead, played possum then turned tail and ran away. Mixture of does and young bucks. So wish I had a camera handy!
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Let it never be said that climbing up walls while brick hunting does not reap rewards. Lurking in the retaining wall at Newhaven Station I found this little chappie;
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Great looking things -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acanthosoma_haemorrhoidale
This one landed on my bag last year
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Other phyla are available
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"Straiton Pond is a lovely little secluded area that I hope stays populated with trees and ducks while the machinery roars all around it."
http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2449#post-26058
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"Jogger's terror as 'berserk' buzzard strikes"
http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/topstories/Jogger39s-terror--as-39berserk39.6732923
(It's alright it's not Ed.)
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The Craigmillar goldfinches have finally found the niger seed feeder I hung from a tree in the office car park last December. Two of them. Lovely.
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Ok, not today, yesterday and not exactly edinburgh, but driving over the drumochter summit yesterday, snow ,blizzards with drifting snow, huge stag ,real monarch of the glen stuff, sheltering from the wind, just watching as I drove by. Also small chicken sized black birds, looked a bit like grouse, same place, hunkering down in the lee of the wind. Ice road trucking its not , but it does have some advantages !
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Today I bought (pre-empting my redundancy payment at the end of the month) a rather large lens. Wildlife spotting may never be the same again (though it would have to be an awful day today wouldn't it...).
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