Sunshine and haze over Calton Hill this morning, where Friends met under the expert guidance of the Scottish Ornithology Club's Stephen Welch to record breeding pairs of bird.
Patient listening and hard stares helped in identifying 18 different species over 2 hours.
Namely: jackdaw, magpie, carrion crow, common gull, herring gull, lesser black-backed gull …
Encouraging how Broughton Pharmacy community library has flourished since modest start in Sept 2019: see p.2 in Issue 289.
Now a well-used local resource with sometimes startling content, including Spurtles.
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Bit of a back-to-front Diana and Actaeon moment here.
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Am glad to report no hind quarters were torn apart afterwards.
11.30pm, Saturday 11 May.
A breathtaking natural spectacle: the aurora borealis.
Or not.
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Edinburgh's most uneven wall?
No. 35 in an occasional photo-series celebrating Spurtleshire street-name signs.
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This morning, to celebrate International Dawn Chorus Day, Spurtle despatched its Avian Affairs correspondent to the tranquil slopes of Upper Greenside.
Here, at 5.19 am, somewhere above the omnipresent hum and hiss of the OMNi Centre plant, is what they heard …
Blackbird, blue tit, chiffchaff, coal tit, herring gull, nuthatch, robin, song thrush, woodpigeon, wren, Eurasian drug dealer and common taxi.
Aciter et Fideliter.
No. 34 in an occasional photo-series celebrating Spurtleshire street-name signs.
[Bottom image by Dnalor_1, Wikimedia Commons, CC-BY-SA 3.0.]
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Sunshine. Fanfare. Bar. Blooms.
No. 33 in an occasional photo series celebrating Spurtleshire street-name signs.
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Eighteen years old today and up for anything.
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Finally beginning to feel a bit like spring.
No. 32 in an occasional photographic series celebrating Spurtleshire street-name signs.
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