An Edinburgh carrion crow. The bird was in what was obviously the most important spot in its territory: at the bottom of the footpath leading up to Arthurs Seat from the Holyrood Palace car park, a critical spot for begging morsels from the walkers heading up or down the hill.
Dunbars Close Gardens, directly off the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, a large formal garden offering refuge from the crowds of tourists. When we looked around, there was no-one else there at all.
At the start of the month, the many imperial fritillaries were the flowers showing best.
Heron which had just taken off from the shore, and was now flying across the water of Mugdock Loch to land on one of the trees on the small island.
These were, I thought, the strangest lichens at the Mugdock Nature Reserve. Abundant on the lower trunks and major boughs of some of the trees, making it look to me from a distanc like the surface of the trees themselves was peeling.
They are some type of pelt lichen, a group of lichens I don’t remember having ever come across previously.
Cormorant on the water at Mugdock Loch, fishing. Disappearing after prey in the last shot in the set.
More of the lichens, and a few of the mosses, on the trees at the Mugdock Nature Reserve