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  1. saluki

    Sitting Ducks

    This video is quite brutal so don't watch if you find raptor kills upsetting. An amazing video otherwise. Change the settings to best quality. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvJssP_t1SU
  2. saluki

    'In a Cheshire Garden'

    Found a little book in .pdf form for anyone interested: http://www.archive.org/details/incheshiregarden00egeriala 'In a Cheshire garden - natural history notes" Written by Geoffrey Egerton-Warburton, published in Manchester in 1912, the book consists of extracts from The Warrington...
  3. saluki

    Predator bait

    Hi, I put a roadkill roe doe out late one afternoon between Christmas and New Year in Argyll, Scotland. The next morning all that was left was the spine and the two back legs, though much of the meat had been removed from the haunches. By the following day the carcass had almost disappeared...
  4. saluki

    Heron and rudd

    Watched a grey heron catch a rudd at Leighton Moss on Sunday. Not only did it catch the fish but it also pulled up a large amount of vegetation (see attached). Wisely, it flew to dry land before dropping everything and re-catching the fish. Never seen one do this before. Jonathan
  5. saluki

    Polecat, Cheshire

    Picked up on the A559 not far from Marbury Park last Sunday. Looks like a pure polecat perhaps, coat has always been more coarse on the few roadkill polecats I've found, compared to the many ferret x polecats I've handled. Jonathan
  6. saluki

    Leighton Moss bitterns

    Hi, I was talking to a guy who does research on bitterns at Leighton Moss. He told me that they've lowered the water levels on the moss at the moment to facilitate reed cutting. This prevents fish from entering the reedbeds, so the bittern fish the margins more and move from one reedbed to...
  7. saluki

    New Langholm trials

    Rat is served up to preying predators: http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/news/display.var.1701093.0.0.php Radio 4 this morning suggested an announcement would come from SNH, and other partners involved in the research, from Edinborough later today. Jonathan
  8. saluki

    What attacked this lamb? (Scotland, UK)

    A quick warning - the attached pics are fairly graphic. My aunty took her dogs for a walk one afternoon last month and came across an injured lamb. It was obvious the lamb needed putting down as soon as possible. She managed to get the lamb into a shed (she's part-time shepherd on the farm)...
  9. saluki

    Licensing Statistics 2005

    I found this pdf entitled 'Licensing Statistics 2005'. I notice under the column entitled 'Licensing Purpose' there is the word 'sale' for five species of finch - can anyone explain this? www.defra.gov.uk/wildlife-countryside/vertebrates/statistics/Licensing-Statistics-birds-2005.pdf The...
  10. saluki

    Red Deer at Leighton Moss

    Hi, Visited Leighton Moss in the evening on Sunday, saw a total of eleven red deer. The rut will be starting any time now, indeed we watched two young stags having a bit of a set-to - unfortunately they fought either in a ditch or behind a patch of reeds, so although we could see their backs...
  11. saluki

    Silver Lane Lakes, near Risley NR

    Found a series of three small lakes last year but haven't had time to visit them much. They're newly constructed by the nearby landfill company. Anyone interested in a visit should come off the M62 at J11 and park at the top of the road going down to the Biffa landfill (lots of lorries go...
  12. saluki

    Sparrowhawk, Carr Moss

    Hi, Having spent the afternoon at Marshside, Southport, I was driving across Carr Moss on my way home when I noticed a Sparrowhawk flying rapidly towards a big flock of mixed linnets and goldies. Stopping the car, I watched the spar seperate a linnet from the flock. By this time the flock was...
  13. saluki

    Mink & Rabbit

    A couple of weeks ago my mate and I were sitting in a car park next to the Fishnish ferry terminal on Mull when we heard a rabbit scream. Jumping from the car, we spotted a mink killing a rabbit on the track behind us. The rabbit was an adult but the mink managed to subdue it in seconds, biting...
  14. saluki

    Cormorant and Pike

    Remarkable photograph on Nature Photographer of a Cormorant attempting to swallow a Pike. It can be seen on the Nature Photographer's forum or here: http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h290/hooklink/corm2.jpg The photograph was taken by Stewart Canham, apparently it managed to eat the Pike. Seen...
  15. saluki

    Whale spotted in central London

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4631396.stm saluki
  16. saluki

    Otter

    Driving along a coastal road in Argyll, Scotland recently I stopped to watch some Common Seals that had hauled out on the rocks. I half noticed another seal swimming in the sea a bit further along the shore, but didn't give it a second glance and continued to watch the seals through my binocs...
  17. saluki

    Nightime birds

    Worked through the night on Saturday. Made a cup of coffee around 3.00am and, peering through the window into the courtyard, was surprised to see a Magpie feeding along side a couple of rabbits (a guy feeds the birds in the courtyard, usually scattering seed before he leaves in the evening)...
  18. saluki

    Wildlife reclaims land hit by acid rain

    A little good news for a change: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1869822,00.html saluki
  19. saluki

    Reserves hope for red squirrels

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4419914.stm saluki
  20. saluki

    Pink BH Gulls

    Looking through some old pics I noticed the attached BH Gull. I understand BHG's with this pink tinge to their breast feathers are more common in Scandanavia, I certainly see more in Argyll than I do here in Cheshire. I've heard several theories as to what causes the colouration - from kreel to...
  21. saluki

    Calling predators

    I've been doing a bit of random predator calling at dinner time this week - everyone's got to have a hobby! Monday I called in first a Stoat then a few hundred yards further on, a Weasel. This was from a footpath cutting through reclaimed land, a place I often see both Stoat and Weasel. Tuesday...
  22. saluki

    Rabbit-eating Grey Heron

    A Grey Heron killed and ate a fully grown rabbit at Leighton Moss on Sunday. I didn't see it myself but apparently the Heron caught the rabbit and 'drowned' it before swallowing it whole. I'm sure the Heron would have soaked the rabbit as a matter of course before attempting to swallow it...
  23. saluki

    Polecats

    We noticed a dead Polecat on the road to Warton on our way to Leighton Moss on Saturday afternoon. We stopped so I could take a look, but it was a single track road and a car came up behind us, so I only had a few seconds to look at it. One thing I did notice was that it's fur seemed very coarse...
  24. saluki

    Mull of Kintyre

    This evening I visited an area few birders seem to bother with, though many pass by on their way to Oban and the Western Isles - the Kintyre Peninsular. It's a huge area of land, the few tourists that do visit tend to go no further south than Campbelltown. Today we ventured further south to the...
  25. saluki

    Divers and Whoopers

    I was speaking to someone on the phone last night who has constructed, placed and monitored diver rafts for some years. He was complaining about the number of Canada Geese that were using the rafts for their own nests - just that morning he'd been watching a pair of BT Divers on a loch where...
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