What an afternoon to walk over to Cramond island! This stretch of the Firth of Forth is a Special Protected Area due to the internationally important populations of waders that it supports. Today did not disappoint: we saw gulls galore, lapwing, curlew, oystercatchers, redshank, greenshank, dunlin, ringed plover and turnstone. Oh, and we might have also stopped to talk to a group of folk we overheard talking about why you can’t eat the shellfish found along the Edinburgh stretch of the coast (never off duty!)
