Monday 9 April 2007

Hermitage of Braid

Today we walked threough the Hermitage of Braid, an area of woodland running by a river in the south of Edinburgh. We found some new paths today, going through steeper parts of the woodland. We had a really good view of a green woodpecker working on its nest in a dead tree, we spent about five minutes watching, its rare to get such a good view of this species. We also saw several wrens, a tree creeper, chaffinches and a grey wagtail as well as lots of blue tits, great tits, jackdaws collecting nesting material, and woodpigeons.

2 comments:

Pat Paulk said...

All beautiful birds. The most colorful bird in our area is the goldfinch and right now we have plenty of them. Maybe it's the 10#'s of thistle I put out weekly.

Crafty Green Poet said...

Hi Pat, I love goldfinches and I know they love thistles, good idea to put some out for them!