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Friday, 16 October 2009

Reflections on the Water of Leith


As many readers of this blog know, I do voluntary work looking after a section of our local river, the Water of Leith. Every Monday morning, I walk the couple of miles from the Water of Leith Visitor Centre upstream to Colinton village. It's a lovely walk and I often see grey herons and dippers and plenty of woodland birds though I've not seen a kingfisher along this stretch of river since I started doing this voluntary work, though I know there are kingfishers here, someone recently saw three of them.... Anyway here are some reflections in Colinton where the river splits into two for a little while before it joins back together at a weir.

32 comments:

  1. Great reflections and that sure looks like a wonderful place to walk.

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  2. These are lovely reflections. That sounds like pleasant work to look after part of the river in that beautiful area with the birds and all.

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  3. Thanks for visiting my blog and commenting. It gave me the opportunity to link over and find your lovely pictures of reflections and the Water of Leith. Thank you!

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  4. That looks like an old canal. Am I correct?

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  5. My kind of pictures.... I love walking by rivers and canals.... your header is excellent... those sweet chestnuts look well... I pick a few pound this week and will start roasting a few next week...

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  6. always fulfilling to see what you find on your newest walk. these reflections are nice. have a great weekend.

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  7. Very calming reflections! It looks like a nice place for a walk..

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  8. This does look like a wonderful place for a walk-beautifully expressed post

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  9. C'est joli et me rappelle de bons moments à Leith!

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  10. Anonymous12:37 am

    Lovely reflections and I impressed that you are a volunteer who helps keep the river clean and healthy. The world needs more people like you!

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  11. Sounds like a lovely walk.

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  12. I always love your Water of the Leith posts ... one day I will post on 'our' Water of the Leith - very different! (or maybe not so much ...)

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  13. Nice reflections!

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  14. The top has a story I'm sure and the reflections are lovely-

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  15. I love the tall trees reflection on the water!

    Good luck to your volunteer work.

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  16. Btw... I've got a picture of Glasgow on my other blog!

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  17. Looks a lovely place to walk and volunteer.
    Noww off to see the rest of your blog...

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  18. Lovely walk. I've seen no kingfishers this year, either. Just wasn't in the right place at the right time.

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  19. hello juliet - this is a such a cool volunteer role to take on . . . . i love the reflections. it's interesting to me because for the last two weeks i've been stopping at gullys, streams, ponds and taking pictures of the reflections. it's been hard to get anything that hums for me though as there's been the constant westerly breeze/wind/gale that accompanies autumn. have a lovely day. steven

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  20. It's so pretty, and has such a timelessness about it.

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  21. Wonderful pictures from beautiful Scotland!
    I/m a big Scotland fan, music, poetry, nature and culture:-)
    Beautiful blog.
    I'll be back!

    Robert

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  22. What a wonderful river to walk along! Quiet and reflective, in more ways than one!

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  23. Anonymous1:33 am

    Would I love to have a place like this for walks. Thanks for sharing.

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  24. How wonderful of to to help clean up the mess that careless others leave in the woods and waterways. Great shots of the reflecting stream...

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  25. I must be a wonderful walk to take every day. A fine area for such photography.

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  26. Anonymous5:44 pm

    What a great place to walk. I love it. Thanks for stopping by my playground. I appreciate it :) Have a great weekend :)

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  27. Lovely shots for James's Weekend Reflections! Thanks for visiting my blog! :)

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  28. What a peaceful, pleasant place to walk.

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  29. Lovely water reflections. I always love seeing the trees and the sky mirrored in a body of water.

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  30. How beautiful. I always love your nature pictures.

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  31. I love reflections in the water. They are always so pretty.
    Beautiful pictures..
    Happy "late" SSS.

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  32. Love the beautiful reflections!

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