trees by the boating lake
pussy willow by the boating lake
The grey hill in the distance is part of the existing ash workings.
The old ash workings have been filled with water and form the Musselburgh Lagoons, which are wonderful for waders and ducks. Today they were quite quiet (I saw a heron, four shelduck and a couple of teal) but often they are full of hundreds of birds of many species. Today, along the nearby coast I saw velvet scoters, very distant grebes (great crested?) and twite as well as lots of waders including a grey plover.
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Hi. Just checked out the Shelduck on the RSPB map. They look rather beautiful. Not a bird I remember seeing before, which isn't surprising as I live inland. We've mostly mallards and moorhens down our way, oh, and swans of course.
ReplyDeleteHi Greenpatches, shelducks are lovely, i used to think of them as 'patchwork quilt' ducks when i was young.
ReplyDeleteHerons and egrets are part of my lagoonscape near Venice I see every morning and early afternoon commuting by train from Venice to the countryside where I teach.
ReplyDeleteEgrets and herons have this old Egyptian solemnity and grace in their shapes and postures...
Here in Minnesota we have tall Blue Herons like your gray ones and smaller Green Herons. They, and all the other water birds have to fly south in the winter because all the bodies of water freeze over.
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ReplyDeleteThanks the fuzzy growth of pussy willows. Great to see especially as we received fresh snow in Eastern Canada today and won't likely see our own pussy willows for a little while to come.
How is Edinburgh taking the stopping of the Encyclopedia Brittanica hard-copy printing?
ReplyDeleteIs there a wake or a celebration or some such?
inspiring pictures and words...
ReplyDeleteI was checking out a pussy willow at the garden center. I dont know how well they do in Oklahoma but I love how they look.
ReplyDeleteThese are all beautiful shots. I particularly love the pussy willows.
ReplyDeleteI love your pussy willows, although they look quite different from the ones I grew up with. Yours are rather more interesting! But ours were sleek, and smooth, and beyond all doubt the first sign of spring, so they always made us quite happy!
ReplyDeleteshoreacres - these pussy willows start off sleek and smooth and then they mature and look like they do in the photo here!
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