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Paying to see deer? Drive around near Bushwhacker Bobs house and you will be picking one out of your radiator within an hour!
Try Donna Nook for seals. An amazing sight.
Try Donna Nook for seals. An amazing sight.
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Fife's Got Everything
My mate used to phone from 10 miles up the coast at Kinghorn to let me know when a dolphin school was on its way, and I'd return the favour when they were on the way back.
I took my wife on a badger watch one evening a few years ago, she's still talking about the old brock who came out doing his Bear Necessities song and dance routine, and who made it very plain our hide at his next scratching post had ruined what would otherwise have been a great night out!
Peregrines flush pigeons from under the Forth and Tay bridges.
The sea eagle release programme had farmers spitting feathers until its closure a few years ago, but there is still the odd one ventures back to the release ground. Just look for a pair of flying doors!
Otters in the rivers Leven and Eden make an interesting paddle-stop. Salmon, sea trout and broonies mean I've spent a large proportion of my life either up trees or up to my waist in watter. Little gems... a robin perched on my boot... a stoat dragging a rabbit ten times its size through the snow... a jay at my elbow, almost breaking its neck in curiousity as I tie a fishing fly... a weasel peeking from a dozen places at once, frantic to know why I'm there... a fox following ten yards behind me along a disused railway track, desperate to overtake.
............... wonderful things
Oh Fife’s got everything, just the place for towrists,
See the bonny pit bings staundin in a raw.
The New Tay Road Bridge, finest in the country,
Half a croon tae cross it and it disnae raise a cheer;
It’s a bob tae cross the Mersey, ye can stuff it up yer jersey,
Would they pay it down in London, oh no bloody fear.
Fife’s entertainments, finest in the country,
We’re the boys tae come tae if ye want tae get some tips;
There’s fitba at Central Park, neckin burdies in the dark,
Haggis suppers, hot pies, bingo and chips.
Fife’s Scotch Whisky, finest in the country,
Distilled frae mountain water at the Coaltown of Markinch;
Man it’s got such power, matured for half an hour,
So don’t be vague and ask for Haig it’s whisky at a pinch.
Fife Coast beaches, finest in the country,
If ye dinna mind the sewage, floatin mond yer toes;
The Costa del East Neuk, it’s enough tae mak ye bloody puke,
If ye want tae go in for a dook, ye hae tae haud yer nose.
Noo Fife’s got culture, finest in the country,
Oh when it comes tae arty talk, oh we’re no the mugs;
We’ve got Chink nags on oor waas, a wheen o gonks in oor haas,
Vernon Ward, Tretchikof and white wally dugs.
The Rosyth Dockyaird, finest in the country,
If ye want a cushy number working for the State;
There’s auld folks, blind folks, holiday inclined folks,
And if ye want a submarine, just wheel it oot the gate.
Oh Fife’s got everything, just the place for tourists,
See the bonny pit bings staundin in a raw.
My mate used to phone from 10 miles up the coast at Kinghorn to let me know when a dolphin school was on its way, and I'd return the favour when they were on the way back.
I took my wife on a badger watch one evening a few years ago, she's still talking about the old brock who came out doing his Bear Necessities song and dance routine, and who made it very plain our hide at his next scratching post had ruined what would otherwise have been a great night out!
Peregrines flush pigeons from under the Forth and Tay bridges.
The sea eagle release programme had farmers spitting feathers until its closure a few years ago, but there is still the odd one ventures back to the release ground. Just look for a pair of flying doors!
Otters in the rivers Leven and Eden make an interesting paddle-stop. Salmon, sea trout and broonies mean I've spent a large proportion of my life either up trees or up to my waist in watter. Little gems... a robin perched on my boot... a stoat dragging a rabbit ten times its size through the snow... a jay at my elbow, almost breaking its neck in curiousity as I tie a fishing fly... a weasel peeking from a dozen places at once, frantic to know why I'm there... a fox following ten yards behind me along a disused railway track, desperate to overtake.
............... wonderful things
Oh Fife’s got everything, just the place for towrists,
See the bonny pit bings staundin in a raw.
The New Tay Road Bridge, finest in the country,
Half a croon tae cross it and it disnae raise a cheer;
It’s a bob tae cross the Mersey, ye can stuff it up yer jersey,
Would they pay it down in London, oh no bloody fear.
Fife’s entertainments, finest in the country,
We’re the boys tae come tae if ye want tae get some tips;
There’s fitba at Central Park, neckin burdies in the dark,
Haggis suppers, hot pies, bingo and chips.
Fife’s Scotch Whisky, finest in the country,
Distilled frae mountain water at the Coaltown of Markinch;
Man it’s got such power, matured for half an hour,
So don’t be vague and ask for Haig it’s whisky at a pinch.
Fife Coast beaches, finest in the country,
If ye dinna mind the sewage, floatin mond yer toes;
The Costa del East Neuk, it’s enough tae mak ye bloody puke,
If ye want tae go in for a dook, ye hae tae haud yer nose.
Noo Fife’s got culture, finest in the country,
Oh when it comes tae arty talk, oh we’re no the mugs;
We’ve got Chink nags on oor waas, a wheen o gonks in oor haas,
Vernon Ward, Tretchikof and white wally dugs.
The Rosyth Dockyaird, finest in the country,
If ye want a cushy number working for the State;
There’s auld folks, blind folks, holiday inclined folks,
And if ye want a submarine, just wheel it oot the gate.
Oh Fife’s got everything, just the place for tourists,
See the bonny pit bings staundin in a raw.
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Me too.
Come back from the Isle of Man...Did not see any marine mammals or sharks round Peel (Probably the best place.) But saw a perky seal by St Michaels Island. The seals here are not at all bothered by people or boats (boats means free fish)
Lots of birds too. Some gannets, (No ganneteries) lots of corvids (including choughs and ravens but few crows)
Got to Creagnaigh folk village if you want to be certain of Loughtan sheep and Manx cats. (Plenty in other places of course you just have to find them.)
Homo motorbicyclist extreemely common in all varieties, Do not visit the island if that is wildlife you dislike.
Come back from the Isle of Man...Did not see any marine mammals or sharks round Peel (Probably the best place.) But saw a perky seal by St Michaels Island. The seals here are not at all bothered by people or boats (boats means free fish)
Lots of birds too. Some gannets, (No ganneteries) lots of corvids (including choughs and ravens but few crows)
Got to Creagnaigh folk village if you want to be certain of Loughtan sheep and Manx cats. (Plenty in other places of course you just have to find them.)
Homo motorbicyclist extreemely common in all varieties, Do not visit the island if that is wildlife you dislike.
Homo motorbikers? Sounds interesting...
Funnily enough the first time i saw a seal in the wild, in the UK, was while on great Yarmouth beach. There was one offshore just had his head popped up looking at the people on the beach for a couple minutes, and then was gone. Not a place i was expecting to see any wildlife.
Funnily enough the first time i saw a seal in the wild, in the UK, was while on great Yarmouth beach. There was one offshore just had his head popped up looking at the people on the beach for a couple minutes, and then was gone. Not a place i was expecting to see any wildlife.
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