Autumn Colours

Today it's been one of those perfect autumnal days, blue skies, the leaves starting to turn colour and robins singing their wistful autumn-song.

I was along the Water of Leith this morning and was amazed how many robins I saw, even at one point a group of about six adults, which is pretty unusual for the British robin, which is a loner of a bird really and very territorial, it even keeps territories in the winter, hence the special autumn (and winter) song.I saw lots of long tailed tits as well, bouncing around in the trees.

Also nice to see the last flowers of summer still hanging round, like this purple loosestrife.

And there were lots of spiders around too. I even managed to take a photo of a spiders web for the first time. This is a golden orb spider in its web.

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