Includes Blue Tits, Coal Tit, Grey Squirrel, Blackbird, Robins, Nuthatches, Buzzard, Grey Wagtail and Dunnock.
Some images from November and December 2020 and January 2021.
28 Thursday Jan 2021
Category Archives: Humour
January 2020 Round-up.
01 Saturday Feb 2020
Posted in Headstones and monuments, Humour, Views, Work In Progress
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Various days in January 2020. Not very much going on this month but there will be more activity as the year grows.
News from the cemetery Garden; bulbs are showing.
The Snowdrops begin.
A bout of breeziness brought down a huge tree branch across this path. It fell from a tree to the right of the picture, and that sawn edge is from previous work to recreate the path. A couple of hours of sawing through lots of little off-branches and the path is navigable again
Everything is coming out early again. Here are some snowdrops, daffodil buds and heather. We have crocus shoots and bluebells coming out too, but they’re not ready for their close-ups yet.
The modern equivalent of “Ten Green Bottles”! Another three were in hands or pockets.
We were asked, via our Facebook page, if we would take photos of a couple of family gravestones. Below are some of the photos we were able to send the inquirer…
January 2019 Round-up.
07 Thursday Feb 2019
Posted in Humour, Information, Views
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Various days in January 2019.
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January 12th…
Section F, now looking more as it ought to. In the older part of the cemetery, this is one of the very few open spaces where birds have room to swoop about to catch insects. We plan to leave the bramble “plantation” in the background and to remove some of the ground ivy in the foreground, then replace that with long grass and wildflowers. We’ve planted shrubs behind that large monument. This will vary the biodiversity, and look more attractive to those coming in by the unofficial entrance at the East Gate. And sooner or later the Council will dispose of our piles of debris!
January 19th…
Section F is looking better and better. A few more brambles cut (aside from those we’re leaving in place), a lot of raking out, and we’re getting there. Behind that large monument to David Ramsay Hay there were so many brambles that we couldn’t get at the Himalayan Balsam! Now we see bulb shoots we’d never been able to see before and we’ve planted some shrubs. But it seems that we missed a stick.
We knew that during the week the Council crew had been in to shift some of our piles of debris and to burn others. It’s a very labour-intensive task, takes ages, and the Council is chronically understaffed. So we were VERY happy to see the difference today!
January 31st…
A new notice has appeared. Excellent H&S advice!
June 6th 2018
08 Friday Jun 2018
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Dog. NOT a wild dog…
Blue Tit fledgling. I saw it leave the hole-in-the-wall nest and rest for a while as it probably wondered; “Okay I’m out. What do I do now?” It then got into protective cover. Then it slowly got higher by hopping and fluttering using a dead hedge, a twig then the tree trunk and onto a branch. The parents came to feed it and they led it off into the main cemetery…
A different Blue Tit nest hole. This is in the ‘roof’ of the Peddie monument…
Poppy, buttercups and other flowers given a Photoshop angle…
Juvenile Great Spotted Woodpecker…
Speckled Wood butterfly from below. Can you ‘spot’ it?…
Two crane Flies ‘dancing’…
Found in the cemetery.
17 Tuesday Apr 2018
Posted in Humour, Information
Has someone lost these sunglasses? They’re not quite in pristine condition but if you want them back and can prove they belong to you, please let us know.
Friends of Warriston Cemetery 
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