jamamafegan Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 Bloody black swans, coming over here taking our pens, chasing all the white swans away with their foreign ways. Get back to Australia where you belong Black Swan 29a.jpg Are these things particularly common around Scotland? I literally have only ever seen this one Where the hell did you see this? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I'm Brian Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 Where the hell did you see this? Stranraer a few years ago. The swan stayed for the summer. Thought it was a sighting of a very rare nature, but apparently they are very common down south. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thisal Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 Taken in California. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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sugna Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 Are these things particularly common around Scotland? I literally have only ever seen this one There was one at Musselburgh Lagoons a few years ago, didn't manage to get along to see it. They tend to be escapees, and if they are they're often pinioned so they hang around for a while. I remember reading a Creationist argument against evolution, saying that things didn't change, and that no one would ever see (for example) a black swan. He seemed to think that it was a clincher; yet given that this was on the Internet, I think most people might have done a quick, "... just let me check this... search... 'black swan'... zero results - OK, we're good to go." I suppose when you fit evidence to a priori facts, you become a little less interested in gathering the evidence. It's a bit pointless if you're not going to take it into account. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidy233 Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 Stuff you and your no bears policy -poxy spiders indeed 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SodoffBaldrick Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 A bird 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SodoffBaldrick Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 Another bird 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SodoffBaldrick Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 A frog 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SodoffBaldrick Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 One last bird 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SodoffBaldrick Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 A wild cow, photographed in the wild wilderness. As evidenced by the ear tag. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wile E Coyote Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 Bloody black swans, coming over here taking our pens, chasing all the white swans away with their foreign ways. Get back to Australia where you belong Black Swan 29a.jpg Are these things particularly common around Scotland? I literally have only ever seen this one As you say they are native to Australia and don't occur in Britain naturally. Any you do see will be escapees from wildfowl collections. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hillonearth Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 As you say they are native to Australia and don't occur in Britain naturally. Any you do see will be escapees from wildfowl collections. They seem to be on the way to establishing a self-sustaining feral population over here. The only genuine wild swans you'll see in Britain are the Whooper Swans that fly in for the winter from the north - the common one we see on park lakes (the Mute Swan) isn't a British native having been introduced here by the Romans. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wile E Coyote Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 Bewick's Swans are also genuine wild winter visitors although they are not as common as Whooper swans and are very rare in Scotland, they occur mostly in England 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peasy23 Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 This was a strange one, as far as I know it's a female pheasant. It was taken in my back garden on Boxing Day 2010 in the middle of the very bad winter, can only guess it was desperate for food but it's not the sort of thing you normally see in a Glasgow garden. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hillonearth Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 Bewick's Swans are also genuine wild winter visitors although they are not as common as Whooper swans and are very rare in Scotland, they occur mostly in England Forgot all about them - here's a photo I took of a couple down at Slimbridge where a big flock show up every winter.... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enigma Posted November 14, 2015 Share Posted November 14, 2015 There used to be black swans on the canal at Ratho. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sugna Posted November 14, 2015 Share Posted November 14, 2015 There used to be black swans on the canal at Ratho. Think they belonged to Mad Ronnie Rusack, who owned the Bridge Inn at the time. He had some connection to Rusack's in St. Andrews - always struck me as highly eccentric. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shandon Par Posted November 14, 2015 Share Posted November 14, 2015 This Pine Marten loved a jam sandwich.. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RawB93 Posted November 15, 2015 Share Posted November 15, 2015 Saw a huge bird with a wingspan like an ironing board. Pretty sure it was a pterodactyl but after googling I believe that to be unlikely. This frog is the only one I have on my phone but have a bunch more on my camera from various trips to woodlands/hills/lochs. Will stick them up some other time. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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