nobody has ever been successfully prosecuted for killing a golden eagle in Scotland
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Wildlife lowlight of the week
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Nigerian prince wants PIN numbers shared with African royalty like him.
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"The Scottish Gamekeepers Association believes its members are unfairly blamed for raptor persecution."
So... they seem to tacitly accept that raptor persecution is taking place. Which leads me to wonder - who do they think is responsible?
I have seen some unpleasant folks in Orkney opinionate online that it's the RSPB and SNH that secretly kill raptors / introduce stoats just so they can blame innocent farmers / landowners. I expect that they think they're paid by George Soros to do so...
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Which leads me to wonder - who do they think is responsible?
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Can't say I share the outrage. As long as the goat got eat that is.
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A different way of looking at things!
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If you fancy three days on South Uist in January, for example, killing woodcock, snipe, and geese, then all you need is £5,390 and it’s all yours.
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sadly one of my hedgehog regulars found flat as a pancake on the road outside this morning.
not taking it well. motons be damned.
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Commiserations on your beprickled loss.
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whats saddest about it is knowing that the onset of light beam and engine noise doesn't mean the hedgehog starts to run away - and they certainly can run
no, they just quickly stop what they're doing and curl into the wee spikey ball, a strategy that's worked for thousands of years
but no match for a car tyre at 35mph
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Ah. L'Élégance du hérisson no more. Sorry to hear that.
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Hope I don't get sued for posting this.
For what it's worth this has been known for at least four years.
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Repairers of railway viaducts are not doing preliminary inspections for bats and walling roosts up with concrete.
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SHOCKED staff watched in horror as a gang of men butchered a deer in full view of their office before carting away its carcass.The three camouflage-clad hunters, armed with what appeared to be a rifle, stalked their prey on waste ground near the Granton gasometer on Friday morning.
Stunned workers in the nearby Scottish Gas building saw them set their dogs on the defenceless animal before slinging it over their shoulders and calmly strolling off.
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Flat badger on the road between Gilmerton and Dobbie's.
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I saw that one this afternoon too, Frenchy. It was very flat. :(
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Decapitated pigeon. Likely culprits?
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Sparrowhawk. Keen on brains. Frequent beheaders.
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Quite something to leave virtually the whole bird just for the head but you see it fairly often. Nature can be vicious
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Three swans found dead in bags next to Aberdeen river
"Inspectors suspect the animals had been killed for meat."
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The Kingsknowe Rat looking deathly on the canal towpath by Wester Hailes Road Bridge yesterday morning.
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Long live the Kingsknowe Rat!
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Biting. Insects. That may have bitten me in the Bow Bar? I have itchy welts on my collar bone, neck... And ankle. From inside my boots. Whyyyyyyy. Also why must I be allergic?
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That's Leslies and the Bow Bar now. Good pubs, but infested?
When The King died he bequeathed us a flea infestation, hot summer and all that, that reappeared in several waves. So I have a large memorial can of Indorex if you want to squirt your home or indeed your seat in the next pub you frequent?
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Might be simpler to flea treat myself...
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CCE dipped like sheep? @chdot with the pole to push our heads under?
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I am back reading the biography of James Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd by Karl Miller. It is called The Electric Shepherd. Has good map of the Yarrow and the Ettirck, I am keen to explore, possibly via the train to gala.
Anyway, Karl plays fast and loose with the truth, as did James Hogg. One alarming section near the beginning gives detail of how Hogg castrated his lambs. Will spare you the actual detail but suffice to say no tools required.
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Do Electric Shepherds Dream of Electric Sheep?
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