Tuesday 26 April 2016

an almost ex-cormorant, Linlithgow Loch


I just can't bear the things we do to nature. Here's a cormorant today on Linlithgow Loch, a metre or more of fishing tackle trailing behind as it flies, entwined around foot and tail. 

I wonder whether it'll have a quick drowning, trapped below the water, or whether it'll starve over days, dangling from a tree.

Please take home your plastics. Please take home other people's too.




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www.beachclean.net

www.mcsuk.org/what_we_do/Clean+seas+and+beaches/Campaigns+and+policy/Hang+on+to+your+tackle

www.birdguides.com/webzine/article.asp?a=4489

www.keepbritaintidy.org/breakthebaghabit/1027

www.snufflelodge.org.uk/?page_id=39


Chris Packham & Keep Britain Tidy - www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10153888945738798.1073741855.88051928797&type=3




www.historic-scotland.gov.uk/propertyoverview?PropID=PL_199

www.lct.org.uk/burgh_beautiful

www.westlothian.gov.uk/environmental-health

www.linlithgowgazette.co.uk




2 comments:

  1. Hi Leo

    We see similar thoughtless acts here in Canada. The fisherperson gets their line tangled up, and in frustration simply cuts off a chunk and throws it away without any thought as to the damage it will cause. Sad thing about the Cormorant, but even more sad is the fact that the fishing line, following the death of the cormorant, will continue to wreak havoc probably entangling some other creature.

    I look forward to your future posts.

    Ernest Somers

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  2. Thanks Ernest. Yes, so easy *not* to discard plastics in nature and such afwul consequences when we do. Sigh.

    Future blog post just posted! Isle of May, one of the best of places.

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