Wildlife

[Dad]

Recently, Dad has found himself back amongst nature...the sweet song of various finchies and titties; the busy toothypegs of red squirrels; the tap-tap-taparoo of woodpeckers, the graceful fence-hopping deer...every day is akin to a real life Disney film (Bambi or one of the others with animals in).

The other day, I saw a blackbird, 2 squirrels a smattering of wee birdies and the woodpecker all fucking hanging out together at my Dad-made feeding area...I was greeting a bitty at the wonder of it all truth be told. 

 

Anyhow - thought it'd be a terrific topic for us to discuss - feeding advice, photos of rare sightings etc etc...summat to do in the summer months / until the Dons get good again ✌️

 

Heres one of yon squirrels - I've nicknamed him, 'Squirrely' ?

 

[Beachend Bootboy]

Wildlife photography is my thing.  If I knew how to post pics straight from my PC I'd fire a couple up but I dinna'.

[Dad]

Aye - cagey wee bastard our resident woodpecker, 'Woody'... getting a bitty more brazen as time goes on but - he's made the hung fatballs his own ? 

I'm just guessing he's a he btw...I'll double check on the rspb site. 

 

And no, no yet - be next year afore USA: phase 2 is underway.

[chief_wiggum]

?? Saw some cracking pics last year of Osprey diving for fish in Loiriston Loch, not sure if they have been spotted this year ?

 

 

 

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[Dad]

45 minutes ago, Beachend Bootboy said:

Wildlife photography is my thing.  If I knew how to post pics straight from my PC I'd fire a couple up but I dinna'.

Here son - get yourself an Imgur account; a terrific place to upload to, handy links for posting elsewhere etc - terrific it is ✌️

[Dad]

3 minutes ago, chief_wiggum said:

?? Saw some cracking pics last year of Osprey diving for fish in Loiriston Loch, not sure if they have been spotted this year ?

 

 

 

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Get your buttocks down Loiriston way and find out son ? 

 

I revealed your hidden contents to find...nothing. I was expecting a wee cuckoo or summat as well - ah no.

[chief_wiggum]

1 minute ago, Dad said:

 

 

I revealed your hidden contents to find...nothing. I was expecting a wee cuckoo or summat as well - ah no.

? That was just me in my dotage hitting the wrong button and not noticing, heres a cuckoo for you anyway

[YorkDon]

Lots of hare, rabbits, and deer out where I live.See the odd stoat kicking about.The dog always wants to go have a look, but the stoat would take her face off before she knew it.

Lots of barn owls too.

[Poodler]

Spider wasp on the street the other day - dragging a spider back to its nest - got a pic but this website/ postimg both have been playing up like fuck recently 

[BrianFaePerth]

24 minutes ago, Poodler said:

Spider wasp on the street the other day - dragging a spider back to its nest - got a pic but this website/ postimg both have been playing up like fuck recently 

Seen any white tips or red backs yet? 

[Ten Caat]

12 minutes ago, BrianFaePerth said:

Seen any white tips or red backs yet? 

Same question to @Dad

With the addition of pink helmets?

 

Going out dogging does not qualify as wildlife watching you old perv

[BrianFaePerth]

1 minute ago, Sooper-hanz said:

 You know what I saw in March , near Canterbury, a fucking white squirrel. Only 50 in the uk. 

The countryside is racist 

[Beachend Bootboy]

1 hour ago, Dad said:

Here son - get yourself an Imgur account; a terrific place to upload to, handy links for posting elsewhere etc - terrific it is ✌️

Cheers, I'll hae a deek later.

[King Street Loon]

56 minutes ago, Bad_Mobby said:

I thought you lived in weegieville? 
 

nae Red Skwurlz there 

Saw plenty of the grey fuckerz in Queens Park yesterday. 

[Poodler]

screenshot tools
 

a duck last night, doon I road 

[Guest Matt Armstrong's Dog]

2 hours ago, BrianFaePerth said:

The countryside is racist 

??. I would rename what we currently refer to as Eastern and Western Brown Snakes, and, in particular, the Black Mamba, which is not actually black, in order to make brown people feel better about things.

#Diversity&Equality

#BrownLivesMatter

[BrianFaePerth]

5 minutes ago, Matt Armstrong's Dog said:

??. I would remain what we currently refer to as Eastern and Western Brown Snakes, and, in particular, the Black Mamba, which is not actually black, in order to make brown people feel better about things.

#Diversity&Equality

#BrownLivesMatter

Aye but all the black things are deadly and a white squirrel isn’t. It’s racism!

[Guest Matt Armstrong's Dog]

2 minutes ago, BrianFaePerth said:

Aye but all the black things are deadly and a white squirrel isn’t. It’s racism!

??.

A very valid point, Brian min. Aye, come to think of it there is also the black widow spider but the old great white shark (although mainly a bluish-grey hue) likes a human meal, so maybe that evens things out. 

[Parklife]

1 hour ago, BrianFaePerth said:

The countryside is racist 

 

19 minutes ago, Matt Armstrong's Dog said:

??. I would remain what we currently refer to as Eastern and Western Brown Snakes, and, in particular, the Black Mamba, which is not actually black, in order to make brown people feel better about things.

#Diversity&Equality

#BrownLivesMatter

 

13 minutes ago, BrianFaePerth said:

Aye but all the black things are deadly and a white squirrel isn’t. It’s racism!

Fucking hell. 

[Dad]

3 hours ago, chief_wiggum said:

? That was just me in my dotage hitting the wrong button and not noticing, heres a cuckoo for you anyway

Cheers son haha ?

2 hours ago, Bad_Mobby said:

I thought you lived in weegieville? 
 

nae Red Skwurlz there 

The weeg is in the rear view mirror now son - terrific ?

[BrianFaePerth]

52 minutes ago, Dad said:

Cheers son haha ?

The weeg is in the rear view mirror now son - terrific ?

Coatbridge?

[Dad]

The secret agents said no to divulge

[frankie_mac's_4]

Naebody seems to eat rabbits nowadays. I mind as a kid butcher shops on George Street festooned with rabbits, grouse, pheasants and the likes hanging fae hooks in the windows

[Redforever86]

Just now, Sooper-hanz said:

French cunts still eat rabbits. You ever seen pig's brains in a French supermarket?   Bloody offal.

I bought a pigs head once to cook. 

[Redforever86]

Just now, Sooper-hanz said:

I'll bet you didn't eat it's brain though. 

It had been cut in half and the brain removed. Was a waste of time anyway, much better and easier to just buy the cheeks. 

[frankie_mac's_4]

I've seen camel's heeds hanging fae hooks ootside butcher shops in North Africa. Watched them butcher sheep on a hook at roadside cafes inna - then ate said sheep

[RedArmyFakshun]

Greenfinch are total cunts.

They turn up mob handed, massive barney, squabbling at the feeder

Ill-equipped ugly dinosaur beaks, they ruin it for everyone

All the seed all ends up on the deck encouraging nocturnal vermin 

 

Bullfinch on the other hand, turn up with the missus, no mess, no drama, very respectful

 

 

 

[Betty Swallicks]

1 hour ago, frankie_mac's_4 said:

Naebody seems to eat rabbits nowadays. I mind as a kid butcher shops on George Street festooned with rabbits, grouse, pheasants and the likes hanging fae hooks in the windows

The 2nd most farmed species in the EU.

180mil. 

Rubbit is fine imo!

[Parklife]

26 minutes ago, Bad_Mobby said:

Ehhh. Okay. 

[Dad]

1 hour ago, RedArmyFakshun said:

Greenfinch are total cunts.

They turn up mob handed, massive barney, squabbling at the feeder

Ill-equipped ugly dinosaur beaks, they ruin it for everyone

All the seed all ends up on the deck encouraging nocturnal vermin 

 

Bullfinch on the other hand, turn up with the missus, no mess, no drama, very respectful

 

 

 

A bundle of finches frequent Dad's Apiary; terrific wee bastards ? 

A family of chaffinches nesting just above the front door and another behind - a great bunch. 

A pair of Greenfinches are oft hanging about - but I've a few locations with food dottted about, so they seem to keep to themselves. 

 

There's a pair of great and coal tits too as an aside; right polite wee cunts they are ?