Fishponds, 06 April 2018
A day with Stewart Collingswood and guests. One springer nearly landed!
Magpies nest-building, 21 March 2018/March 2026
A pair of magpies have been busy, buliding their nest in the top of a tall shrub in the back-garden. The shrub is all upright stems, and magpie beaks naturally hold sticks horizontally! They insist on using sticks 2-3 feet long, and then struggle to get them in past the uprights. It’s a shaded spot…
Cramond Fish Pass, 11 March 2018
Work on the new Fish-Pass is now complete. The temporary access roadway across the river has been removed. The river was in spate, due to a combination of snow-melt and rain.
Starbank Park
Folk Skiving-off in Starbank Park, courtesy of ‘The Beast from the East’, 01 March 2018. Plus, the wee library…
Butterfly Farm
Some shots, taken in February (major steam on lens warning!!!) at the Butterfly Farm at Dobbies’ garden centre, at Melville.
Musselburgh Scrapes 02 February 2018
Redshanks, Teal, Oystercatchers, Godwits… and a pheasant!
Almond fish pass works, 30 January 2018
Not long before completion of the works, last weekend, high water once again washed away the scaffolding structure deflecting water from the far end of the weir. The team were busy rebuilding it… again.
