Sunshine and haze over Calton Hill this morning, where Friends met under the expert guidance of the Scottish Ornithology Club's Stephen Welch to record breeding pairs of bird.

Patient listening and hard stares helped in identifying 18 different species over 2 hours.

Namely: jackdaw, magpie, carrion crow, common gull, herring gull, lesser black-backed gull …

Encouraging how Broughton Pharmacy community library has flourished since modest start in Sept 2019: see p.2 in Issue 289.

Now a well-used local resource with sometimes startling content, including Spurtles.

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Bit of a back-to-front Diana and Actaeon moment here.

For reference follow THIS LINK.

Am glad to report no hind quarters were torn apart afterwards.

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11.30pm, Saturday 11 May.

A breathtaking natural spectacle: the aurora borealis.

Or not.

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Edinburgh's most uneven wall?

No. 35 in an occasional photo-series celebrating Spurtleshire street-name signs.

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THE FUTURE OF LOCAL JOURNALISM IN SCOTLAND

As part of the UK-wide Indie News Week and the ‘No News is Bad News’ campaign from the Public Interest News Foundation, the Scottish Beacon (of which the Spurtle is a founding member) will hold its first public event in Edinburgh on 7 June.

CSG Projects Ltd wants to build a Richard Murphy-designed 5-bdrm home on land it owns between the office at 12 Blenheim Pl and Greenside Parish Church (24/01889/FUL).