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Lot of the birds that are shot just get buried I am also told.
Forty million raised each year. Roads carpeted with them, most of the shot ones go in stink pits. They used to put the grouse in the public bins on the A9 but outcry, quiet word etc. Industrial waste I'm afraid. Anyone shooting driven pheasants should be made to shoot tethered chickens in front of their children until they cry hot tears of shame.
An actual hooded crow hanging out with the carrion crows in a field off Stanedykehead. The tane unto the tither turned and said - whar sall we gang and dine the-day?
Gembo
The two twitchers you saw last week were actually cyclists is disguise! They were watching Greenfinches, but also on the look out for Kingfishers which remained elusive.
We took the tandem to West Barns yesterday to try and see Shorelarks, but they also eluded us. We did see a large swarm of Twite though and had a fine lunch in Graze in Dunbar. A tail-wind home via Markle rounded off a fine day.
Happy New Year and happy cycling to everyone.
Cheers
Colin
About 50 geese flying over Dalmeny Estate this morning. They were heading more west than north or south but it still seems either early or late for migrating.
The black redstart enjoying life in North Berwick
@EdinburghZoo
Earlier this week one of the young barn owls went missing from @EdinburghZoo. If you spot him please contact us on media@rzss.org.uk
https://mobile.twitter.com/EdinburghZoo/status/817299834856239104
A barn owl just in front of my bike, apparently distracted by my headlight. Several buzzards and a puncture fairy. Gah.
Edit: I just read the post above. Spooky!
Another owl
On owls - This sounds like a Sunday Post story, but I swear it's genuine.
On my wife's birthday a few years ago,(and knowing her love of Harry Potter) I woke her up, wished her happy birthday and said her present was in the living room, more specifically on one of the wall lights.
Imagine her surprise to see it was an owl which had come down the chimney!!
......Which is all very amusing until it stretches its wings and starts doing laps of the room - have you seen those talons?
And we won't mention the poo.
RSPB were bloody useless, threw a blanket over it, instantly released the confused bird in the back garden and, disoriented, it flew straight into a tree.
A neighbour found a dead owl a week later and always wondered if it was the same one.
An owl comes down the chimney in the remake of tinker tailor, at the private school Jim prideaux is hiding out at. The fireplace is in his classroom, like in olden days. His secret service training is then used.
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Big Schools' Birdwatch is an educational activity that gets your class closer to nature. It takes just an hour and works for all ages and abilities. Every year, educators from every corner of the UK take part with their classes.
There's plenty of flexibility to run it with any age group of children and we have resources to help. Join in with Big Schools' Birdwatch 2017 and help us make it the biggest ever!
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https://ww2.rspb.org.uk/kids-and-schools/kids-at-school/schools-birdwatch/
The Wester Hailes Kingfisher (or the Hermiston House Kingfisher out on a jolly?) highlighted by the morning sun beyond Bridge 8 Hub. A cormorant around the corner.
Great tits started their territorial singing yesterday. Can two weeks of snow be far away?
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The fish - mainly tench, perch, roach and pike - will be caught with net and electro-fishing. They will be transferred to holding tanks and released into adjacent sections of the canal.
Water will be drained using a valve at Woodcockdale, west of the town, following temporary dams being set up at Woodcockdale Bridge, Preston Road Bridge, Manse Road Bridge and Wilcoxholm Bridge.
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http://www.scotsman.com/news/transport/three-mile-section-of-union-canal-to-be-drained-1-4336143
In a civilised country those fish would go on the dinner table.
What about the frogs and snails on the towpath banks? Could be eaten too, no...?
And the water voles if the mink haven't got them what will happen to ratty?
what will happen to ratty?
Campagnol en brioche.
There will be a vast number of moules on the bed of the canal if my memories of the drainage of the Lancaster Canal in the late 80s/early 90s are anything to go by.
Think will take Mrs & mini-McR out for a trundle to see this on the second day (4th Feb).
Have never cycled out that way before, I assume I just join the canal path at Fountainbridge and keep pedalling west ??
couple of hours gentle trundle ?
Twenty minutes gentle trundle....
@IWRATS twenty minutes to Linlithgow?! I asssume that is the destination that Iain was referring to. I would have thought it would be more like two hours at a 'reasonable' pace with a detour around the closed Slateford Aqueduct.
@jdanielp
Linlithgow? Ah, my major malfunction.
@IainMcR
Join at foutainpark and yes just cycle west apart from the aqueducts. Now the one in Edinburgh has a detour as per other thread. However was there not also a suggestion that the one over the almond was also going to be closed? It must have a detour too but I cannot think just now how that would work. Falls away steeply on the north side but maybe something doable on the south side at an ear;lier bridge?
@gembo good point.
You may already know this, or maybe it wouldn't affect you anyway, but worth noting that the surface is only suitable for road bikes to about Ratho, unless something's changed since the last time I cycled that far (couple of years ago).
Looking at my spokes west Lothian map There does not look to be a good alternative over the almond. The Map has a crease right at that bit but looks like big detour for wee ones. You can do it if ok on minor roads but head south east away from the route then loop back to get onto canal a few hundred metres along. But fair bit of detour even for adults.
Not exactly wild, but I have spotted a friendly tiger cat patrolling the towpath and looking for attention between Harrison Park and Meggetland a couple of mornings this week.
There was a frog dawdling on the long Dalmahoy 2 evenings ago. Why it has to travel in the direction of road don’t know, better than that anteater (badger) that pulled out without looking a few months back
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