Post Category: Wildlife

Wildlife

Survey Season Round-up 2024

Dan our Conservation Officer gives a summary of our years survey activities, in total the team conducted 3 Bioblitz’s, 12 ...

Wildlife

BioBlitz’s in the Pentland Hills

Readers may remember, back in June, we conducted a ‘BioBlitz’ at Coalie Park at which our volunteer recorders found 264 ...

Wildlife

BioBlitz at Coalie finds 264 species!!

BioBlitzers ready to survey at Coalie Park

Volunteers

Seasonal Update from Ranger Johnny

January to April was known years ago as our quieter time, when we had a chance to reflect on the ...

Blog

An Ecological Summer is planned with our new Conservation Officer, Steven

Steven reflects on this first month or two in post and talks about ecological work we have planned for the ...

Volunteers

Riverfly Surveys – the results for 2023

The Water of Leith Conservation Trust began Riverfly sampling in May 2023. After some provisional monitoring and sampling at various ...

Visitor Centre

Free Trees available from the Centre – this week and into 2024

This winter Edinburgh and Lothians Greenspace Trust are giving away 9,000 trees to Edinburgh residents in partnership with City of ...

News

Michaels Fungi Adventures in the Dells

Welcome to the beautiful and weird world of Fungi that is right on the doorstep of the Water of Leith ...

Blog

Summer Update from Ranger Johnny

A look at what the Conservation Team have been upto recently.

Wildlife

Fishing season is now closed but check out some of Alex’s trout

Some images and reflections on this years fishing season.

Volunteers

Meadow Surveys – the results

For the last four years, our dedicated volunteers have been steadily collecting data of each of our wildflower meadows. This ...

News

6 weeks on the Biomatrix Platforms are growing well and welcoming Leith’s latest residents

This ‘snuggle’ of eider chicks were spotted having a snooze on one of the platforms this week. They seem to ...

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