Crafty Green Poet

As many readers will know, I regularly patrol Edinburgh's Water of Leith river, picking litter and recording wildlife. I've become e...

 We had a lovely walk at Musselburgh yesterday. We started by walking along the River Esk   where we saw a good number of Eider ducks and th...

 We had a lovely walk round Arthur's Seat yesterday, the weather was lovely, sunny and mild.  We were particularly keen to check on the ...

We try to visit Dalkeith Country Park at about this time every year, primarily to see the Bluebells, which make a spectacular display, alo...

 At the moment I'm taking every opportunity I can get to wander through The Meadows in Edinburgh. The cherry trees are at their best. He...

Yesterday was Earth Day (you can read my Substack post on the topic here ). I attended an excellent half day gathering on biodiversity in E...

 We always love walking in Edinburgh's Botanic Gardens at this time of year. The gardens have a large variety of rhodendrons and azaleas...

 A few years ago, I was employed to carry out wildlife surveys of all of the council managed cemeteries in Edinburgh, a job I really enjoyed...

We had a lovely walk along the Water of Leith on Saturday and were very pleased to see two Grey Herons fishing, surprisingly close to each o...

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