A blustery day today but not too bad in terms of rainfall - just a couple of isolated showers! Took the short drive to near Edinburgh Airport and walked down to the river Almond. The vegetation was veery dense and as tall as I have ever seen it because of all the rain! Our mission today was to spot a kingfisher as we have not seen one for a while so we set off along the river bank to a favourite spot and a kingfisher flew past within about 2 minutes!! what a result! It then flew back again a bit later so we were happy with that! At the same spot we also spotted a couple of young birds we thought were juvenile goosanders although not certain.
Further on and across the bridge we settled down at the riverside and spotted a couple of dippers and a grey wagtail. That was about it for this particular walk although we spotted a buzzard on the waay back.
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