@gembo who? I haven't been on any aqueducts today.
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Wildlife highlight of the day
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Not today, th othe evening hen w met as I was coming off and yu were gong on
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@gembo ah yes. Sorry, I rarely seem to completely hear what you're saying in passing.
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Sparrowhawk skimming over the roofs of Causewayside. Female so all chicks hatched.
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Any aphid watchers will be ecstatic today.
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Yes. I got a very close view of several.
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Many Red Deers in a field by the road just outside Forsinard yesterday. So many and so close I assumed they were farmed deer, but then they spotted me and left the field en masse through a low bit of fence and headed off up the hill.
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lovely!
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Otter swimming in the harbour at Brodick. Isle of Arran this morning.
Cuckoos on the road from lamlash to Sliddery yesterday. (Heard not seen) also Arran
Lot of children cycling on quiet main roads. No lids. Arran, what a lovely place in the sunshine, wind a bit strong.
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Chdotarel Fabritius!
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that goldfinch means business
staring down the seasons ahead
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Saw a little dead greenfinch on the road on Saturday in Arran
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Almost all the greenfinches ever to exist are dead.
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messy squabblers, greenfinch
they love the rammy
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worries about the hedgehogs out back
ah mean i built them a wee hoose an everything
but i'n not going to feed em cat food dailythat would be wrong would it not ?
yet i feed the birds without angsti am a hypocrite
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Hedgehogs on the decline bax San. Take them some nuts and eggs?
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@bax
Indeed. The Goldfinch as Butcher Bird?
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@bax you do realise that you can buy them hedgehog food?
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Maybe a wee snack at the weekend only could be the balance. That way they're not reliant on you but they don't have to work as hard at weekends to find food. Hedgies need weekends too. :D
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An extremely hairy caterpillar crossing the canal towpath near the Bridge 8 Hub yesterday evening. I hope it made it across given the volume of pedestrian and bicycle traffic.
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Looking aimlessly into the sky last night after tea (pomegranate molasses marinaded lamb skewers grilled on a wood fire since you ask) there flew over;
A female sparrowhawk in questing flight
A heron
A pair of swifts doing parallel balletic turns
A bat
No mothsWhat has happened to moths?
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I have been rather entertained by the two families of fledgling sparrows hopping round the garden this morning.
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Humans just 0.01% of all life but have destroyed 83% of wild mammals – study
"The new work reveals that farmed poultry today makes up 70% of all birds on the planet, with just 30% being wild. The picture is even more stark for mammals – 60% of all mammals on Earth are livestock, mostly cattle and pigs, 36% are human and just 4% are wild animals."
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@Trixie
sensible advice that gets me off the hook
will proceed this weekend onwards, cheers
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Apparently there are now only eight cygnets on Craiglockhart Pond. I couldn't quite count them since they were at a distance as I passed by just now, but a dog walker who was sat watching them confirmed the loss. A new bench seems to have sprung up where a van was blocking the path last Friday.
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Blackbird keeps a car off the road and encourages owner to cycle: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-44223325
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Great views of swallow fly-bys from the Lyell Building at Heriot-Watt.
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x4 baby swans now out & about on Inverleith Pond. Very bold; parents let them explore along the edge so we could admire them. I sneakily stroked one, but it wasn't very keen and the nearest parent swan gave me a hard look.
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grooming cygnets by the pond ?
you soon be a compulsive pesterer
on the avian offenders register
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