Fox just wandered across the garden and vanished into the hedge.
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Wildlife highlight of the day
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Golden eagle disappearance 'highly suspicious'
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-43084753
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Maybe five hundred geese over the A70 as we approached that road fom the quiet road from Auchengray
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A very greedy tufted duck on Inverleith Pond.
Crows amongst the crocuses, and a pair of dippers under the Stockbridge too.
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a flock/swarm/plague of midges the NEPN around 4pm. Hardy souls, it was freezing.
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A truly enormous bird soaring over farmland near Haddington.
Took me far too long to realise it was actually a microlight.
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Not wildlife as such, but another way large landowners affect lives and landscapes.
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The “tenants versus trees” row brewing in the Borders took a surprising turn this weekend with an astonishing attack on Buccleuch estate plans for large-scale forestry in the Eskdale area by local conservative MSP Oliver Mundell.
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At the estate’s insistence, the meeting will be a “drop-in session” where each complainant will be dealt with individually.
That about sums it up. Farmers hauled before Mr Scott's factor in true seventeenth century fashion.
Planting trees on viable farmland is bonkers, but the question of what's viable depends on the subsidies available and who owns it.
I doubt the Langholm people would volunteer to host gloomy industrial Sitka plantations.
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I've just been watching a buzzard out of the office window.
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An insect the size of a honey bee. Bit previous I'd venture.
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Two deer running down the path from Bug Alley in front of the sewage works. Less than 10 yards away
Yesterday a large hare shifting across a field above Harlaw Reservoir.
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Mr fimm saw a badger on the canal towpath just west of the aqueduct last night.
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@fimm excellent!
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Dead rat on the towpath this morning. Not really a highlight...
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@arobcomp?
Polwarth Rat, looked very wet and strangely parallel to travel, normally they are perpendicular. Was a biggy
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@gembo not the Kingsknowe Rat on a reconnaissance trip? I didn't think that it looked very big, but only noticed it at the last moment just in time to avoid cycling over it.
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Long live the King. Sknowe rat.
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A woodpigeon playing chicken with me as it strolled slowly across the Innocent. Happened again at the same spot on the return journey. Unconfirmed if was the same one or if it's a local pigeon trend.
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@jdanielp, big tail and jacksy, tiny head
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We saw a fox sauntering (yes, they do) across railway tracks at the east end of Waverley Station early on Sunday morning. Then a deer strutting its stuff alongside the track near Gorebridge, and finally a skein of geese over the reservoirs at the top of the Ale. Quite a collection.
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A pair of buzzards circling each other over Peffermill. A lady sparrowhawk cruising for a gentleman sparrowhawk.
Can spring be far away?
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A whole wee flock of redwings in Charlotte Square gardens this morning! Very tame - not sure I've ever been so close to one.
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Live buzzard of some size hovering above us in east Lothian. This morn. Also some little quail I think flying across us (reminding me of the film Sully where the aircraft is disabled by bird strike). Then sadly a beautiful recently dead sparrowhawk, a massive but just dead hare and indeed a recently dead wee dear. Maybe Sitka or maybe fawn.
Bad morning for wildlife.
Good for us Lanterne Rouge in Gifford gives coffee refills and has a big track pump and tubes.
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Then sadly a beautiful recently dead sparrowhawk
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Sadly seen a fair few on Lang Whang too. They are not so good in traffic
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Now is that a whimbrel or a curlew?
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