purplerabbits

Back at work? Big pile of mail? Filling come out on a bacon sandwich? Then you are me and I claim my GBP5.

So cheer your self up with a baaaby red squiggle




Also Peacock butterflies are totally goth underneath

Proper bird post to follow...

Saturday was apparently invasive species day. In one short stretch of the Water of Leith by Stockbridge I saw Himalayan Balsam (lots), Rhodedendron, Fuschia, some kind of pampas grass (maybe not actually invasive, but certainly self seeded) and A family of six or seven mink kits with their mum. They were being very cute and squeaky and trying to persuade me that they wren't deadly invasive things at all...



Wuff! But Oh Noes! But Wuff!

Today I decided I had to get out looking for brids and prepared for a bread-and-butter day after the excitement of last weekend. Idid a reasonable walk round Colinton Dell and saw:

Blue tit, great tit, long tailed tit
Robin, blackbird
Starling
Wren
Dunnock
Carrion crow, jackdaw, magpie
Wood pigeon, feral pigeon
Black headed gull, herring gull
Mallard, gooseander (both of whom helped me dispose of half a loaf of homemade bread)

My first dipper of the year
And squrrels and a bunny and - roe deer! - which I have never seen in Edinburgh before. So yay!