Crafty Green Poet

It's been my best ever year for moths, here's the list of species I've seen and been able to identify, with photos where availab...

The day started out bright and still and unseasonably warm as we walked up Easter Craiglockart Hill. A kestrel hovered above the grass, ...

It's beautifully autumnal in Colinton Dell just now. The larch tree I'm studying for Tree Following is starting to turn subtl...

Lovely Shadows in Colinton Dell by the Water of Leith for Shadow Shot Sunday

It was a beautiful mild, sunny morning for this week's walk round Colinton Dell, by the Water of Leith . Autumn has definitely arrived...

The beeches in Colinton Dell are beautiful at the moment So are the hornbeams,  their chandelier fruits looks particularly wonder...

Lovely weather today, sunny and warm - perfect for enjoying a wander round Arthur's Seat. Also perfect weather for spiders. Here...

dancing among the falling leaves - speckled wood butterfly

 Autumn is definitely here! The rosebay willow herb is beautiful in its reddening foliage and draped in spiders webs too, though the webs ...

Garden spider enjoying a snack.

Birdwatching magazine was promoting waderwatch for today, the idea being to go to your local wetland or coastal area to watch waders (...

Today we walked the stretch of the Water of Leith downstream from the Visitor Centre to Roseburn. There were plenty of hoverflies around,...

Lichens are fascinating! This xanthoria parietina is growing on the sea wall at Musselburgh. The velvet scoters are back for the seaso...

The larch tree is still green and the new cones still look young the elder bush that grows just under the larch is now in fruit, though ...

At this time of year, the distinctive eider duck becomes slightly less instantly recognisable, with the males in eclipse plumage. Not all m...

Almost the end of summer and this is how the larch looks and behind it the wildflower meadow now looks like this Meanwhile, still th...