I dont have to spend long in the city (half a day will do!) before I long for open spaces and wildlife so we have now moved to the Travelodge at Musselburgh and will be exploring th coast.
The beach at Gullane is great for studying geology with some interesting rocks
Huge timber probably from some wreck
Volcanic rock layers
Sandwich Tern
atWe stopped off at Waterstone House at Aberlady, the headquarters of the SOC and were treated to a free cup of coffee in the gallery (well we are members!)
Sunrays over the power station at Prestonpans.
Distant view of Edinburgh Castle
Decided to check out the nature reserve at Musselburgh to see what was coming in to roost.
Swan in the evening light.
The other side of the power station now
Great clouds
Swan flying over
View from the hide, plenty of Lapwings about.
Not a great sunset but a bit of colour
Next morning up early and decided to head for North Berwick. We had not managed to park at the Aberlady reserve the day before so took advantage of the empty carpark on our way.
I had seen pictures of this lovely bridge and wanted to photograph it!
The tide was out so plenty of waders about including this Curlew
Lots of Teal
We could hear and see thousands of geese in the distance
Some flying over Pinkies I think
Redshank
Dragonfly
A bit closer to the geese Pinkies and Barnies
Aberlady
More people arriving now so back on our way.
Seabird Centre at North Berwick
Lovely clear waters on this award winning beach
N Berwick Harbour
Beautiful colourful tiles around the harbour
Juvenile gull waiting for scraps
Lunch up by the golf course with great views of Bass Rock
The white dots are Gannets
Just north is Tantallon Castle
Berwick Law
Dirleston Church
We even found wildlife in the church, this window is famous as it depicts 90 different creatures, here are just some...
Yellowcraig
Fidra Lighthouse
Sand patterns
Tank traps at Longniddry
No sunset again
Fisherow Harbour
Magpie and Jackdaw Musselburgh
Canada Goose
Greylags
Blackheaded Gull
On our way home and we stopped off at Biggar
Covenanters Museum
Waterfall Dalveen Pass
Another stop at Morton Castle
Home stretch now and Clatteringshaws Loch, looks like they have had plenty of rain!
3 comments:
The giant timber looks like a giant caterpillar.
Those are some lovely rocks.
An interesting and varied collection of photographs, must have taken you an age to put that post together !
Ditto to Dereks comments.
Quality pictures as usual.
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