Edinburgh Canal festival

The sun finally came out today for the Canal Festival. This annual festival includes a range of food stalls, a raft race, boat trips and pony rides. It's a great chance for people to get to know the canal and is quite a lively event, specially when the weather's nice (which isn't reliable of course, this being Scotland!).

Afterwards, Crafty Green Boyfriend and I wandered further along the canal.

We met this lovely family of mallards

There were five ducklings altogether, and they spent a lot of time scrambling round in the reeds and grasses
 

This would hopefully keep them safe from the herring gulls that kept swooping by, these gulls would quite happily eat a young duckling. We were pleased to see that this female mallard had five ducklings, who are obviously older than the ones above

 It was also lovely to see the meadow vetchlings in bloom

for 30 Days Wild.