Beach & wildlife...of various sorts!!!

teddygirl · Post by **teddygirl** » 13 Sep 2007, 21:08

rapunzell wrote:I could use a couple of hedgehogs if anyone has some they don't need any more

No hedgehogs I'm afraid but I could give you a couple of frogs if that's any use.

Oh, and I saw "the squirrel" running along the High Street yesterday morning.

SoupDragon · Post by **SoupDragon** » 13 Sep 2007, 21:16

Oh, is it a real squirrell or something else?

rapunzell · Post by **rapunzell** » 13 Sep 2007, 21:17

teddygirl wrote:
rapunzell wrote:I could use a couple of hedgehogs if anyone has some they don't need any more
No hedgehogs I'm afraid but I could give you a couple of frogs if that's any use.

Oh, and I saw "the squirrel" running along the High Street yesterday morning.

Alas, there is no pond

teddygirl · Post by **teddygirl** » 13 Sep 2007, 21:47

rapunzell wrote:
teddygirl wrote:
rapunzell wrote:I could use a couple of hedgehogs if anyone has some they don't need any more
No hedgehogs I'm afraid but I could give you a couple of frogs if that's any use.

Oh, and I saw "the squirrel" running along the High Street yesterday morning.

Alas, there is no pond

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Maybe just as well, I've just spent the last ten minutes chasing a frog (Jake) around the kitchen. He must've been in for a while as the door was closed.
I finally caught him just as he was disappearing in to son's room............then I would've been in big trouble

Puerto bella · Post by **Puerto bella** » 13 Sep 2007, 21:59

What did Baxter make of a frog in the Kitchen?

Puerto bella · Post by **Puerto bella** » 13 Sep 2007, 22:05

Any Badger Lovers out there interested in swapping badger stories.

I personally love them and have been learning more about them with the kind assistance of one of the Lothian Badger Group's v. knowledgeable members. They are just the most amazing creatures and seem to be all around us in Midlothian.

rapunzell · Post by **rapunzell** » 13 Sep 2007, 22:14

Puerto bella wrote:Any Badger Lovers out there interested in swapping badger stories.

I personally love them and have been learning more about them with the kind assistance of one of the Lothian Badger Group's v. knowledgeable members. They are just the most amazing creatures and seem to be all around us in Midlothian.

I've been hoping find a hide to get out to a sett to watch for them one night, I 'm not up to crawling through bushes atm, so need something more elegant

I would love to see them in action though.

teddygirl · Post by **teddygirl** » 13 Sep 2007, 22:16

Puerto bella wrote:What did Baxter make of a frog in the Kitchen?

He was too busy chasing another one out in the garden

teddygirl · Post by **teddygirl** » 13 Sep 2007, 22:21

I love badgers too but the only ones I've seen have been dead ones at the side of the road, a very sad sight.

My Mum(who lives up north) is lucky enough to know a few people who have badgers visit their gardens and has gone to see them. I've never managed to wangle a visit yet.

Poppy · Post by **Poppy** » 18 Sep 2007, 19:00

We were away in Grantown on Spey and saw at least 10 red squirries in various locations, including this pair:

and this wee show-off:

rapunzell · Post by **rapunzell** » 18 Sep 2007, 19:03

Cuteness!

Poppy · Post by **Poppy** » 18 Sep 2007, 19:04

We were also at the Zoo at Kincraig and there were lots of Wild Cat kittens:

rapunzell · Post by **rapunzell** » 18 Sep 2007, 19:05

Did you kidnap any?

Poppy · Post by **Poppy** » 18 Sep 2007, 19:51

Plug always searches my pockets and bag when we are anywhere near cats/ducks/anything cute

rapunzell · Post by **rapunzell** » 18 Sep 2007, 19:58

Poppy wrote:Plug always searches my pockets and bag when we are anywhere near cats/ducks/anything cute

And at the zoo penguins never fit into my bag either

Poppy · Post by **Poppy** » 18 Sep 2007, 22:03

rapunzell wrote:
Poppy wrote:Plug always searches my pockets and bag when we are anywhere near cats/ducks/anything cute
And at the zoo penguins never fit into my bag either

I know, their beaks stick out of the top

rapunzell · Post by **rapunzell** » 19 Sep 2007, 22:30

I tried quietly kidnapping a hedgehog but my mum made me remove it from the glovebox

SoupDragon · Post by **SoupDragon** » 20 Sep 2007, 12:30

When my mum lived in Musselburgh she had a hedgehog visiting regularly.
It got caught in some netting and Baby Dragon rescued it.

They can be very noisy eaters.
We watched one years ago eating a grayling we'd left out in the backgarden of my mums. ( she was living outside Gala at the time, moves around a lot )
It crunched and munched and snorted and didn't leave much at all.

SoupDragon · Post by **SoupDragon** » 12 Nov 2007, 17:39

We've been woken up twice in the last week by the foxes calling around Regent St/ Straiton Place area.
Wonder why they're suddenly so noisy

I was watching a robin singing its heart out in a tree yesterday.
Felt a tad sorry for it- the territory its claiming will soon be a car park

Maria · Post by **Maria** » 20 Nov 2007, 13:11

Post by **wangi** » 20 Nov 2007, 13:21

Never realised that sort of stuff was news, should have let the 'News know about that time I found the dead seal by Seafield...

Maria · Post by **Maria** » 20 Nov 2007, 13:26

If the BBC News can give airtime to abandoned kittens who think a rabbit is their mum then reckon the EN can write about a baby seal

tracyjanemurray · Post by **tracyjanemurray** » 14 Jan 2008, 18:41

I was watching a little bird run along the edge of the water between the gulls today. It was much smaller than the oyster catchers, with shorter legs, and after looking at my bird book I'm not sure if it was a sanderling or a turnstone (can't remember what colour its little legs were...). It looked too black on top to be a sanderling but it was on the sand, not the rocks. We want to tick it off in my kid's bird spotter book so can any twitchy-types can give us a clue as to which is the more common around here?

Post by **wangi** » 14 Jan 2008, 18:50

These guys (turnstones)?

http://www.pbase.com/wangi/image/37412918

tracyjanemurray · Post by **tracyjanemurray** » 14 Jan 2008, 19:08

I think so, although it looked less brown and more black from the distance we were at.

Those are very endearing little chaps - thank you!

SoupDragon · Post by **SoupDragon** » 14 Jan 2008, 22:55

We also get sandpipers round here.
See RSPB

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