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More images from May 2020
13 Saturday Jun 2020
Posted in Headstones and monuments, Information, Nature
Category Archives: Nature
May 8th 2020
09 Saturday May 2020
Posted in Nature, Views, Views and Nature
A few images from around the cemetery on a brightening morning.
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March 1st 2019. Birdlife in the cemetery.
03 Sunday Mar 2019
A video of some of the bird species taking advantage of the installed bathing facilities.
Robins, great tits, blue tits, chaffinch, bullfinches, wren, long tailed tits, dunnock.
January 18th, 2019.
18 Friday Jan 2019
Posted in Headstones and monuments, Nature
Robin, Great Spotted Woodpecker and monuments.
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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’…
June 4th 2018.
04 Monday Jun 2018
Posted in Headstones and monuments, Nature
1; Gargoyle at the Adam Black memorial.
2; Part of the catacombs structure.
3 & 4; Blue tit exiting nest entrance.
5 & 6; Bumblebee. Possibly a tree bumblebee. It is joined by a fly.
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May 30th and 31st 2018.
31 Thursday May 2018
Flowers and a small bee, great tit with food for young, great tit posing on a stone, great spotted woodpecker at an interesting angle, caterpillar suspended from an overhanging tree branch by a silken ‘thread’, bluebells, song thrush, various views, blue tit emerging from nest hole, buttercups, dandelion. Click on an image to view a larger version. This opens in a new tab/page.
April 2018 Round-up.
26 Saturday May 2018
Posted in Headstones and monuments, Nature, Revelations, Video
Various days in April 2018.
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April 1st…
April 2nd…
April 6th…
April 7th…
April 8th…
Two new volunteers joined us today, so here’s a before-and-after of some of their work. The third stone had a lot of moss on it, but now it’s legible…
April 9th…
April 14th…
April 15th…
April 19th…
Treecreeper gathering nest material…
April 20th…
April 21st…
April 22nd…
April 24th…
April 27th…
April 30th…
March 2018 Round-up.
28 Saturday Apr 2018
Posted in Information, Nature, Video, Views
Various days in March 2018.
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March 1st…
Snow and more snow.
The same stone photographed over three days; February 26th, February 28th and March 1st….
March 3rd. Brief video of snow/hail in the Secret garden…
March 7th…
March 8th…
March 9th…
March 12th…
March 21st…
Video featuring some of the Warriston cemetery bird life. Segments; a) great spotted woodpecker, b) blue tit, c) robin, d) two blue tits, e) robin.
March 27th…
February 2018 Round-up.
04 Wednesday Apr 2018
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Various days in February 2018.
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February 2nd…
The first daffodils begin to appear…
Next –Â A pair of Great Spotted Woodpeckers. They were having great fun chasing each other across a few sections…
February 3rd…
Who knew that flowers could read? Despite all the cold and wind and rain and snow and hard frost, this plant took heart from the words behind…
February 5th…
Treecreeper. They like a change from trees now and then…
February 6th…
Great Spotted Woodpecker…
February 9th…
Snowdrops. Robin. Mr Duncan. Buzzards. Bullfinch…
February 11th…
This and that, here and there…
Goldcrest…
February 12th…
City of Edinburgh Council notice board. Installed today…
February 15th…
The local prison has a scheme whereby donated garden tools are reconditioned and then given to voluntary groups. We received such a batch today! Here they are – wrapped, unwrapped and two little ‘uns in use…
February 16th…
February 17th…
This area is supposed to be a triangular “clearing” between sections. We’ve cleared it before, but the weeds they keep a-growing. So, weeds cut down again and this mass of snowdrops can be enjoyed in their full glory…
This urn was intriguing, had to be rolled around. Unfortunately, not in the best light! It’s part of the gravestone which commemorates the first burial at Warriston. The neighbouring stone had a detail begging to be cleared too. And they also have some snowdrops! Lots of snowdrops around, which is lovely to see…
February 18th…
February 20th…
A beautiful morning today, with that angled February sunshine coming through the bare deciduous trees to light up the gravestones. When we started four-and-a-half years ago, you couldn’t see through this section. Some ivy has grown back, but it’s nowhere near as bad…
February 21st…
February 23rd…
February 26th…
February 28th…
