I think someone on here asked to be reminded when the geese started arriving at Aberlady. Well, there were thousands there on Friday evening! Lots of people watching too.
Cheers
Colin
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It is that blessed season when both greylag and solent geese may be seen at Gullane point.
No swallows though. Hard Brexit.
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Geese in the fields and in the air along the Lang Whang this morning.
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Geese in the fields and in the air along the Lang Whang this morning.
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Excellent, thanks Colin - may take a quick post-work trip out tomorrow night...
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@Wilmington's Cow
On the path from the Aberlady Bay to Gullane Point there's a sharp right hand bend just after you enter the sea buckthorn thicket before Marl Loch. Noticed yesterday that the strainer post on the inside of the corner is a sparrowhawk plucking post. You know, if anyone was lurking with a big tele-camera?
Also little egret in residence. Still makes my eyes bulge a bit.
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Ooh, now that's good to know, ta.
And I love seeing the Little Egrets there - striking birds, and the yellow socks are funny.
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A kingfisher flying under Hermiston House Road bridge as I was cycling down from the road to the towpath, shining nicely in the early evening sunshine. It landed opposite where the access path joins the towpath, so I stopped to admire it although it clearly didn't appreciate this and promptly flew back under the bridge again. It called out while in flight, a sound which I hadn't heard before, or at least which I hadn't made the connection of being the call of a kingfisher at least. First kingfisher in ages!
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A female wheatear about 600m up Schiehallion. Don't know what it could be finding to eat there. Probably waiting for the raging 80mph south wind to abate before heading off for the winter.
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Just going over the lagoon at Montrose. Teeming with seabirds. All flocking and chasing the train, lovely.
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A pig.
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Where was this pig?
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A couple of goosanders on the canal this morning.
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Where was this pig?
It was walking along the side of the road near Smeaton Shaw. I went back to the farm to find someone but it was deserted. So I shood it back to the steading and left it at that. I could have asked in at the cottages but there's probably not much social workers, teachers and other urban escapees can do about these things.
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Was the pig wild?
(Hint answer is Wild? it was livid)
Loving the urban escapees. the hamlet of Carrington that I passed through a couple of weeks back in beautiful sunshine had the same feel.
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Five big Vs of honkbills migrating east past the Tay road bridge this morning.
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A cormorant on the canal near the Scott Russell Aqueduct.
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A bazillion geese gaggling around South Lanarkshire yesterday.
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My first ever spot of a kingfisher today. On the Water of Leith around the bridge to the Modern Art Gallery.
Definitely was one - the blue was unmistakeable and so bright my wife was able to see it, even without her glasses.
Genuinely excited and buzzing about it!
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Well done Stickman! I spotted a kingfisher on the River Warfe in Yorkshire while on holiday last week, which is my first non-canal spotting. It's still very exciting to spot each one years/many spots later.
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@Stickman We must have been there at exactly the same time. I saw it too. Stunning. And larger than I'd expected a kingfisher to be.
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@ih: it was around 4 I saw it.
Because I've only seen them on TV and in proper wildlife photos I thought that the professionals made them look so spectacular. If anything, they understate it. The colour was so vivid that I was taken aback. I'm going to go back looking for it.
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Not actually blue of course
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Sky lark askylarkin' 30 October, Pentlands . Weird
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A solidly built female sparrowhawk floating low over the roofs of Comiston Road/Belhaven Terrace, with a couple of tiny passerines in half-hearted pursuit this afternoon.
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Massive bull at newbigging. Dead owl (I fear.) on Lang whang but was going too fast due to tail wind and new Tarmac to say for certain.
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edit: wrong thread - apologies
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What I think was a Falcon (definitely a bird of prey) landed next to us on the way into Dalkeith Country Park on Sunday.
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I think that I might have alarmed Lilac Helmet Lady this morning by gesticulating wildly at her as we approached one another at Meggetland. As we passed I shouted that I had just spotted a kingfisher, which hopefully put into context the reason that I had been pointing excitedly at the far bank. It was on a very low hanging branch of one of the bushes behind the Colinton Road Tesco (where I'd seen one once before) but I'd initially written it off as being a blue plastic bag given how prominent it was. It turned out to be facing away from me, hence looking very blue.
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