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Donald Anderson

@da-anderson.bsky.social
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The Walking Dad. Husband, father and dog owner. Heaven is other people, wildlife and fishing. In communication and used to run the best city in the world. Every dog walk is a litter pick. Supports #pawsonplastic.

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Donald Anderson @da-anderson.bsky.social · 13h
@helenbennett.bsky.social’s #BirdOfTheDay is #BestBeaks Celebrating any bird with a beak or bill with striking colours, bold profiles, or interesting shape. I’ll resist the temptation to post another Puffin and go for a lovely Oystercatcher and chick on the banks of the River Tweed. #bird #birds.
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Donald Anderson @da-anderson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
@alan678.bsky.social theme for #BirdOfTheDay is #EFG, birds beginning with any of those letters (1st name). My only photograph of European Bee Eaters, despite much searching. Taken from the hotel grounds of a TUI hotel in Marrakech. #bird #birds.
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Donald Anderson @da-anderson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My first sighting of Fly Agaric toadstools. It was an empty access road to Kailzie Gardens, but I stopped very carefully and got some lovely phone pics. Lovely things and looking freshly painted in the rain. #ScottishBorders.
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Donald Anderson @da-anderson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
@helenbennett.bsky.social’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BokehBirds - any bird captured with a soft, muted or blurry background. A Buzzard in Blackford Glen, #Edinburgh. #bird #birds
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Donald Anderson @da-anderson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
@robcrank68.bsky.social’s has chosen #Pairs as #BirdOfTheDay theme; photos with pairs of the same species. #bird #birds. Two lovely #puffins.
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The Edinburgh Reporter @edinreporter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Police release images of men in connection with two separate fires Police Scotland has released images of three men they wish to speak to who may be able to assist with their enquiries into two wilful fire-raising incidents....
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Police release images of men in connection with two separate fires
Police Scotland has released images of three men they wish to speak to who may be able to assist with their enquiries into two wilful fire-raising incidents. The incidents happened around 1.34pm on Sunday, 21 December, 2025 on Ladymuir Crescent, Glasgow, and at around 3pm the same day at the B6371 in East Lothian, also known as Buxley Road. The three men pictured are described as white, around 17–25 years old with short dark hair. All were wearing dark clothing and trainers and one was carrying a grey rucksack. Anyone who can assist or provide any information is asked to contact Police Scotland via 101, quoting incident number 1525 of the 21 December, 2025. Alternatively, you can contact Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111 where information can be given anonymously.
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The Past and other Places @pastandotherplaces.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A burst 18” main has been located on Duddingston Park South Road #Edinburgh Interruption to water supplies in Danderhall, Castle Green, St Martins, Piershill, Woolmet, Gracemount, Grangepark, St Leonards, Dumbiedykes, Newcraighall, Moredun and the Inch. www.scottishwater.co.uk/in-your-area...
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Latest Update - Scottish Water
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Donald Anderson @da-anderson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
@helenbennett.bsky.social’s theme is #TheDivers for #BirdOfTheDay. A Farne Island Tern was a highlight of this year’s summer trip. #bird #birds
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Donald Anderson @da-anderson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
@atlanticbirding.bsky.social’s #birdoftheday theme is #raptors. Sometimes you just get lucky. A kestrel that flew up in front of me at our hotel n #Marrakech, and a juvenile buzzard a few yards away on the evening dog walk in Blackford Glen in #Edinburgh.
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Donald Anderson @da-anderson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
@alan678.bsky.social has chosen #LightAndShadow as today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme; any bird capture with both. This is a Buzzard capture from Blackford Glen, #Liberton in #Edinburgh. Long way off, but a lovely encounter.
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Donald Anderson @da-anderson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The @atlanticbirding.bsky.social #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Elegant; any elegant looking bird. A Great Egret from a small park on the edge of Pollensa in Mallorca. Lovely to see. #bird #birds
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Donald Anderson @da-anderson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
@robcrank68.bsky.social #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Paridae. Lots to choose from, but this great tit from the garden in #Walkerburn was lovely to see. #bird #birding
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Donald Anderson @da-anderson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The wonderful Inch House in the equally wonderful Inch Park. One of my favourite buildings in Edinburgh. It’s talking part in Doors Open Day run by the wonderful #CockburnAssociation. My column for today’s Edinburgh Evening News. app.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/story/doors-...
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Donald Anderson @da-anderson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
@atlanticbirding.bsky.social’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #silhouette. Took me a few trips and they were a long way off, but managed to get a picture of some roosting European bee-eaters in #Marrakech #Morocco. #bird #birds.
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Donald Anderson @da-anderson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BirdsInAbstract defined as "From motion blur, obscure angles, or contrasting textures, anything goes". This is the reflection of a Heron in a pool in Blackford Glen, #Liberton in #Edinburgh. I had to think about this one. #bird #birds.
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Donald Anderson @da-anderson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
@atlanticbirding.bsky.social’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Mouthful; a bird with anything in its beak. Had to be a Puffin from this year’s visit to the Farne Islands. Lovely to see. #bird #birds #Farneislands
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Donald Anderson @da-anderson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This sign was taped to a post at the corner of Princes Street. i’m afraid I tore it down and threw it on the floor of the Saigon restaurant telling them to keep it. A guy called me an @$$hole. That’s criticism I’m prepared to take. 🙄
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Donald Anderson @da-anderson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
One of my all time heroes of science. Why we should be celebrating the achievements of one of the enlightenment’s greatest minds. Hutton helped us understand our world - app.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/story/300th-...
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300th anniversary of the local man who discovered deep time – Donald Anderson
This year marks the 300th anniversary of the birth of James Hutton, one of the greatest figures of the Scottish Enlightenment and the man widely regarded as the father of modern geology.
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Donald Anderson @da-anderson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
My column from the Edinburgh Evening News. Why all parties in Edinburgh deserve recognition for avoiding a crisis and delivering equal pay - app.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/story/how-ed...
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How Edinburgh avoided a crisis on equal pay – Donald Anderson
As we look at the crisis facing Glasgow, it’s worth considering why we don’t have a similar crisis here in Edinburgh. That largely comes down to how both cities handled equal pay.
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Donald Anderson @da-anderson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I do love the ‘Edinburgh Flashback’ feature in the Edinburgh Evening News, and I’ve had flashbacks to waiting to the bus to take me to Ingliston Market way back when I had a Sunday job there as a teenager. #Edinburgh #Edinburgheveningnews
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Donald Anderson @da-anderson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
@robcrank68.bsky.social’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Iridescence, any bird whose colour changes with light on them. A Pheasant who thought he was doing a great job hiding in a field off Galashiels Road in Walkerburn in the Scottish Borders. A lovely encounter on the evening dog walk. #bird #birds
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Donald Anderson @da-anderson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
One of my favourite views anywhere. Arthur’s Seat from #Liberon Brae. #Edinburgh
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Donald Anderson @da-anderson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Blackford Glen never disappoints. The roe deer were playing hard to get but still a few around. #wildlife #Edinburgh #Liberton
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Donald Anderson @da-anderson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
@alan678.bsky.social’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #ABCD, any bird name beginning with any of these letters. An scruffy and unposted pic of a juvenile blackcap from Damhead in the #ScottishBorders.
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Mark Z. Jacobson @mzjacobson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This is how fast oil use can disappear China's reduction in oil consumption during first half of 2026 due to replacement of fossil vehicles with EVs exceeded the UK’s entire oil consumption during that period China’s CO2 emis fall Q226 due to plummeting oil use carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...
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Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions fall in Q2 2026 due to plummeting oil use - Carbon Brief
China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions fell by 1% in the second quarter of 2026, as oil consumption plummeted amid the strait of Hormuz crisis.
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Donald Anderson @da-anderson.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Can’t remember where I found this image, but I think it’s from near Bridgend on Dalkeith Road and probably looking over what is now a cemetery. Still a lovely view. #TheInch #InchPark #Liberton
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Donald Anderson @da-anderson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
@robcrank68.bsky.social #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BirdNaps. A lovely curlew having a nap at the Musselburgh Lagoons. #bird #Birds #UKbirds
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Donald Anderson @da-anderson.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Fabulous news from a fabulous news service. Stop doomscrolling and get yourself a dose of positivity. There are many great things happening in the world, but we don’t hear about them in an age of clickbait. Thank you @progressntwrk.bsky.social
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Donald Anderson @da-anderson.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
@robcrank68.bsky.social’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #ItsAllWhite, birds main colour is White. A nesting Stork on a mobile phone mast in Morocco. #bird #birds
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Donald Anderson @da-anderson.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Liberton Brae in days gone by. #Liberton #Edinburgh.
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Donald Anderson @da-anderson.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The @alan678.bsky.social #BirdOfTheDay theme is #FlowerPower any bird capture with a flower in view. Another excuse for one of my favourites. A Common Bulbil in Marrakech. #bird #birds
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Donald Anderson @da-anderson.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
@helenbennett.bsky.social #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BirdsUpClose #Birds #BirdsSeenin2026. Has to be this Goldfinch who was checking me out. #bird #birds.
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Donald Anderson @da-anderson.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Housemartins gather beside the SUDS Park at South Gilmerton before their migration to Sub Saharan Africa. Haven’t seen that before. #bird #birds
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Donald Anderson @da-anderson.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The @robcrank68.bsky.social #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BestOfTheMonth. I don’t think I ever saw a Buzzard in Libby Dems (Blackford Glen) in all my many years of playing there as a child. It’s a delight to regularly see them there these days. This was a long way off, but lovely to see. #bird #birds
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Donald Anderson @da-anderson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
You know you’re really old when the fire station you were involved in being developed is replaced. Not sure how the dilemma of renaming Double Hedges is being handled with the new fire station, but thankfully a solution was found last time. #Edinburgh #Liberton.
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Donald Anderson @da-anderson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
@alan678.bsky.social’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Coastal&River any coastal or river birds. I’ll go with one of each. Egrets, I’ve had a few pictures. One from the lovely Musselburgh Lagoons and one from the banks of The Tweed at wonderful Walkerburn.
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Donald Anderson @da-anderson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The alan678.bsky.social alt theme is #ReflectionsAndShadows, any capture of a bird with an accompanying reflection/ shadow, for today's #BirdOfTheDay. A Heron captures in Blackford Glen, in #Edinburgh. #bird #birds. One of my favourite encounters.
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The Past and other Places @pastandotherplaces.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Data published by the National Records of Scotland, shows there were 45,067 live births registered in 2025, almost 696 fewer than the year before and the lowest annual total since records began in 1855. #population #Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Line graph showing babies born in Scotland from 1974 to 2025.  A downward trend from about 70,000 to 45,000.
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Donald Anderson @da-anderson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Old #Edinburgh. I do love the ‘Edinburgh Flashback’ feature in the Edinburgh Evening News. Everyone hated the sculpture and rightly so, but look at the state of the tenements in the background. The #goodolddays of 1974. The two tone effect is just how it appears online.
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Donald Anderson @da-anderson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The @alan678.bsky.social #BirdOfTheDay theme today is #RecentGardenBirds, most recent capture/s of a bird/s in your garden. A lovely juvenile greenfinch waiting patiently for a turn at the feeder. #bird #birds
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Donald Anderson @da-anderson.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The @helenbennett.bsky.social #BirdOfTheDay theme is #ThinPerches. A thoughtful looking female Stonechat out on the hunt in the wonderful Little France Park in Craigmillar. #bird #birds
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Canada hits back at the US over tariffs after Prime Minister Mark Carney said "last-minute changes in the US proposed terms were unfair, uneconomic, and called into question the reliability of any deal".
bbc.co.uk
Canada says it will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down
A new 50% levy on $20bn of Canadian imports comes into force after a last-minute breakdown in trade talks.
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Donald Anderson @da-anderson.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Today’s @robcrank68.bsky.social #BirdOfTheDay is #ColourfulCharacters, any bird with colourful plumage. My favourite encounters this year have been with Stonechats at the wonderful Little France Park in #Craigmillar #bird #birds
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Donald Anderson @da-anderson.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Fabulous news. Thanks for sharing.
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Donald Anderson @da-anderson.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
A Painted Lady. This butterfly migrates north every year from Morocco. Much easier to capture an image here than in Morocco (the second pic) where the heat makes them hyper active. It took me years. Two pics more than 3,500 miles apart. Both equally lovely.
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The Past and other Places @pastandotherplaces.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Aberdeen: "A total of 138 private properties and 366 council homes were found to have Raac in their roof panels. ... the plan to demolish and rebuild the properties is expected to cost more than £150m." #housing www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Demolition of Aberdeen's Raac properties gets under way
Residents were forced to leave more than 500 homes after the potentially dangerous material was discovered in 2023.
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Donald Anderson @da-anderson.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Great news from a great news outlet. There is hope and ‘progress’. Past the tipping point now.
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Donald Anderson @da-anderson.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Fabulous news and well done India. Amazing progress.
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Donald Anderson @da-anderson.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
On reflection. The evening view on the River Tweed at #Walkerburn. #ScottishBorders #rivertweed
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Donald Anderson @da-anderson.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Roe deer in Blackford Glen captured on the dog walk. Awesome to see in this beautiful slice of countryside in the city. #Edinburgh #Liberton.
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