We had a lovely walk round Arthur's Seat yesterday, the weather was lovely, sunny and mild.
We were particularly keen to check on the tadpoles in Dunsapie Loch. Regular readers may remember the
scenes from a few weeks ago when we found a lot of toads in the loch. Well yesterday, we found a lot of tadpoles!
Hopefully a good number of these will grow up to be toads (or in a few cases frogs).
There were lots of Chaffinches singing around the hill
and several pheasants who seemed to want to pose for the camera
We were delighted to watch this Roe Deer as she walked across the field - we wondered whether she had a fawn hidden away somewhere...
The Birds Foot Trefoil was beautifully in flower
much to the delight of this Red Tailed Bumblebee (one of the few bees we saw yesterday)
The Hawthorn trees were also in almost full bloom
and were surrounded by St Marks Flies (though we didn't get any photos of those - they're big black flies with dangly legs which come out in late April, early May.)
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