Crafty Green Poet

   This is the story of the scientists who rediscovered the coelacanth. This fish had only been known from the fossil record until 1938 when...

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...

watching the raindrops - kitten raises her paw to the windowpane  ** originally published in Blithe Spirit , the journal of the British Haik...

 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 ...

Do you see the swifts are here again? They swoop so low and soar so high I think there may be more than ten - do you see the swifts are here...

Monday was a bank holiday so for my regular walk along the Water of Leith in the Dells, I left the litter picker at home and Crafty Green Bo...