We enjoyed watching the jackdaws, this couple were collecting nesting material
The herons already have their nests built, you can see them in the trees on the island in Duddingston loch, another photo from Crafty Green Boyfriend whose camera has a better zoom than mine!
Crafty Green Boyfriend also took this photo of a greenfinch, we were surprised by how many of these lovely little birds we saw today, they are generally declining in number and not usually very common, but we guessed we saw about 5 or 6 today
There were some beautiful lichens on some of the trees, I particularly like this one, which clearly shows the round fruiting bodies in the yellowe lichen (and I've given up trying to identify lichens for now!)
The whole area round Arthurs Seat and the Crags is very beautiful, here are some more of my photos
One of the prompts for NaPoWriMo today was to take a piece of jargonistic, official writing and transform it into something more poetic. So I'm thinking of doing this with the manifesto of one of the Scottish conservation organisations, but so far have not been enough inspired by the text to produce anything resembling poetry! I did write two poems yesterday though so I am on target!
9 comments:
Hello, wonderful walk and bird sightings. I like teh chaffinch and greenfinch. The heron's nest are cool. Happy weekend to you!
To one who has been long in city pent, these are delightful.
think greenfinches are stabilising now, I didn't see any here for years, then saw a couple on the cycle track the other day. They certainly crashed due to disease though.
I visited Edinburgh for the first time ever last week and had a view of Arthur's Seat from my hotel room. I knew Edinburgh was supposed to be beautiful, but hadn't quite realised how magnificent it really is. We had two wonderful days there, visiting the university mainly. Wish I had had the time to visit Arthur's Seat.
It appears to be a nice walk!
Great photo of the herons nesting. It is heron nesting here as well, and sometimes there are 100 and more birds fishing in the bay shallows near the rookery.
Well sitting on my settee, and looking at your photo's here, I've had a lovely walk, thank you.
I love the ones of the greenfinch and chaffinch, such lovely colours.
The weekend has certainly been quite nice weather for walking.
Hope the coming new week is a good one for you.
All the best Jan
Those scenes are very calming - I may come back here today and have another look. Love the birds and their hideaway.
What a lovely walk - and beautiful photos. We rarely see Greenfinches in our neck of the woods, which is sad as there were quite a few when we moved in some four plus years ago.
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