Crafty Green Poet

 The weather has been lovely today, certainly nice enough to enjoy an easter Monday walk round Edinburgh's Figgate Park. The willow tree...

Easter weekend weather has been very changeable indeed, we've had rain, high winds and snow! On Friday we did have a lovely walk by Blac...

 This is an excellent book from Tristan Gooley, the self styled Natural Navigator . The idea isn't to learn to recognise different speci...

 It was a lovely cold and sunny day today for a walk along the Water of Leith.  I checked up on the larch cones that are developing nicely, ...

  Yesterday we decided to go for a walk round Arthur's Seat, hoping to see both Hairy Footed Flower Bees and Common Toads. We were not d...

 We had a trip to the Royal Botanic Gardens on Saturday, hoping to see the first lot of rhododendrons on display and we weren't disappoi...

The weather has been very changeable today. Once the early morning rain stopped I went out to do a litter-picking, wildlife recording patrol...