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Edinburgh Birds

@dansk.bsky.social
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Pictures of birds I've taken myself - usually while pretending to vigorously cycle around Edinburgh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @CheepBirds on Twitter

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Edinburgh Birds @dansk.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
#BirdingScotland What warbler did I see on Dornoch Beech? Typical warbler, Brown over buff with spots of yellow around it's eye and a single, wide yellow streak down it's chest like a Great Tit's Black streak. Warblers that I could Id there were Sedge Warbler and Whitethroat.
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Edinburgh Birds @dansk.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Wren, Rain, Post. #birds
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Edinburgh Birds @dansk.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Song Thrush collecting worms for the kids. #birds
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Edinburgh Birds @dansk.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Grumpy Baby Robin #Birds
A newly fledged Robin
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Edinburgh Birds @dansk.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Apparently I've been mixing up Blackcap calls with Garden Warbler for years.
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Edinburgh Birds @dansk.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Failed to capture exotic bird, got a nice Chaffinch instead.
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Edinburgh Birds @dansk.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
A Dunnock, the only bird I could manage while out trying to get colourful things. #birds
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Edinburgh Birds @dansk.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
A scabby Greenfinch in Edinburgh Botanic Gardens aka Unexpected Crossbill. #Birds #BirdingScotland
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Edinburgh Birds @dansk.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Treecreepy #Birds
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Edinburgh Birds @dansk.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Redshanks #Birds
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Edinburgh Birds @dansk.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Frog. #Birds
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Edinburgh Birds @dansk.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Grey Wagtail, probably the most bird amongst birds.
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Edinburgh Birds @dansk.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
I've spent altogether far too much time looking at mud in the hope of a glimpse of this prehistoric looking creature. I've been rewarded with some great insights into it's behavior. Heard the full gamut of it's calls. I've even seen it fly. He (probably) is my bird now. #Birds
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Edinburgh Birds @dansk.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Dipper construction time in the Water of Leith today. Stupidly located nest immediately abandoned for a more quiet outlook. #birds
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Edinburgh Birds @dansk.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Just look at the vermiculation on this Teal. Taken in Edinburgh today. #Birds
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Edinburgh Birds @dansk.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Kingfisher. I wasn't going to take a photo but rude not to. #Birds
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Edinburgh Birds @dansk.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
A Water Rail sneaking about. Real shame you so rarely get to see them do this. On the Water of Leith in Edinburgh. #Birds #BirdingScotland
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Edinburgh Birds @dansk.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Does anyone know what kind of divers there are far off the coast at Musselburgh today? Saw 2 or 3 with black/white spotted backs, grey at the back of the neck and white underneath. Surface time limited to slightly shorter than it took me to focus them. #birdinglothian #birdingscotland.
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Edinburgh Birds @dansk.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Overwintering Blackcap, the hard to find female in sunshine type. #Birds
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Edinburgh Birds @dansk.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
#BirdOfTheDay A skating manky pigeon.
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Edinburgh Birds @dansk.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
My new Kingfisher friend. #Birds #Edinburgh
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Edinburgh Birds @dansk.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Oystercatchers, knowing full well nobody believes they are busy catching oysters, always look like they are up to something nefarious. #Birds
Oystercatcher on a sea wall
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Edinburgh Birds @dansk.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Here's a new regular Cormorant from the Water of Leith. He regularly sits on this stick pointing the wrong way. #Birds
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Edinburgh Birds @dansk.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
The delightful camera-dodging coal tit. #birds
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Edinburgh Birds @dansk.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Kingfisher sitting where it ought not to. #Birds
Kingfisher perched on a rock
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Edinburgh Birds @dansk.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
the invariably inverted Nuthatch. #Birds
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Edinburgh Birds @dansk.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Go look in exactly the same place for a whole year, eventually a Common Gull will turn up #Birds
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Edinburgh Birds @dansk.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
I never get bored of jeweled eyed Jackdaws #Birds
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Edinburgh Birds @dansk.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Robin #Birds
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Edinburgh Birds @dansk.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Nice weather for (taking pictures of) ducks. #Birds
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Edinburgh Birds @dansk.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
A paucity of Redwing #Birds
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Edinburgh Birds @dansk.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
The improbable playing field Curlew. # Birds
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Edinburgh Birds @dansk.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Another Kingfisher. I've named this one the Shitfisher because rather than put on a show, it bellyflops onto the water, splashes about a bit and somehow emerges with a fish. #birds
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Edinburgh Birds @dansk.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
There's always an exciting bird to photograph if you can get as close to Rock Dove as you can tell amongst all the manky boys in Leith. #birds
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Edinburgh Birds @dansk.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Kingfisher. It's either a good photo or a bad photo. Either way I can't see out of one eye now. #birds
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Edinburgh Birds @dansk.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Water of Leith Kingfisher, distant gloom version. #Birds
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Edinburgh Birds @dansk.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Enjoying taking pictures of tiny brown Treecreepers in the murk. Using all the ISO. #birds #ukbirds
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Edinburgh Birds @dansk.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Moorhen without it's usual black background
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Edinburgh Birds @dansk.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Day 5 of wearing my shutter out taking hundreds of pictures of the same bird. Some improvement. #WildlifePhotography
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Edinburgh Birds @dansk.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
392 pictures of a Little Grebe and this was the best one.
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Edinburgh Birds @dansk.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Today's birding discovery is the Marsh Sandpiper looks almost exactly like a Greenshank. But not quite. Size comparisons useless as always as they refuse to stand next to each other. #BirdingScotland
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Edinburgh Birds @dansk.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Not just one, two! Spotted Redshanks.
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Edinburgh Birds @dansk.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Surprise of the day - this young Sandwich Tern's parent actually came back for it, much to it's screechy relief.
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Edinburgh Birds @dansk.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Excitement of telling a stranger about finding a Wheatear in Edinburgh diminished by him explaining to me that they nest in his walls up north and he has to sweep them out of the way to get to the bins.
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Edinburgh Birds @dansk.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Bored? Go out and see how much of a Goldcrest you can photograph. #Birds
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Edinburgh Birds @dansk.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
I think I've finally solved the mystery of Inverleith Park's weird duck. I've been watching it for months, noticing it's got stubbly wings and can't fly. Today I've caught him out of the water for the first time. He's a tall boy. I suspect a large chunk of Indian Running Duck. #Birds #Edinburgh
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Edinburgh Birds @dansk.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Once again I go completely unnoticed by the marauding sharp-eyed raptors. An Edinburgh Peregrine earlier today. #WildlifePhotography #Birds
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Edinburgh Birds @dansk.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Long tailed tit plus interesting shrubbery. #Birds #Edinburgh
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Edinburgh Birds @dansk.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
I should just call this Edinburgh Dippers. I'm wondering if this is one of this year's fledglings from the end of April, photographed back at at the nest site and generally not caring about tourists. #BirdingScotland
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Edinburgh Birds @dansk.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
My newest regular bird pal is this Herring Gull who likes to pretend it's not up to something.
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