Ray Collier has written an article this week on Pine Martins moving into Inverness to feed from bird tables. The interesting question is whether they are doing this out of desperation and hunger (due to habitat degradation), out of laziness (easier than wild-caught food), out of population pressure or out of the gradual loss of fear of man.
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They've recently been spotted quite regularly (not by me) in Drymen and I had just assumed that this was range expansion, but now you mention some of the other possibilities I do wonder.
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