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Pictures of birds I've taken myself - usually while pretending to vigorously cycle around Edinburgh 🏴
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There's two of those Canlags out there, I've very occasionally seen them at the same time. Always assumed they were from the same brood.
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I've never seen anything buy manky pigeons along that stretch!
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This one really quite well fed even without the fluffing.
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Well, they contain a high level of nonsense then!
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For the Botanics, the birdplaces list is suspiciously identical to ebirds "likely species based on 358 records in a 20km by 20km area" which the ebird app defaults to. As birdplaces is user generated content, maybe if the author don't provide a list it defaults to ebird?
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I suspect it's pulling sightings from ebird for a generous radius around each site. e.g. Edinburgh Botanical Gardens shows every bird you could possibly find in Edinburgh City. Also includes Mute Swan as top 5 which the gardeners don't tolerate due to their appetite for ornamental water plants.
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I was just reflecting on the first photo I took of a Great Tit. You couldn't in fact see a bird in it.
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This one just along at Wardie Bay and flew off that way, maybe they're still out there somewhere.
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Right? Personality and looks!
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Ha Ha I feel this photo.
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There's a couple of them resident there and they are both menaces
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Probably one of the same birds, then!
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Difficult to get a photo without a face full of food!
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Didn't hang around to find out
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It's one of the middle class ones from Inverleith Park.
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Just noticed you can see the reflection of the low winter sun setting behind a house in it's eye. I guess it was just waiting for the moment to pass.
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I left it before it could change it's mind.
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My difficult relationship with geese seems to be on hiatus.