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Seafield prom grass is looking untidy – that might actually be a good thing!
Those in the Seafield and Portobello area might have noticed the council giving the grass at the top of Seafield Prom a haircut these past few days. Long-term followers will know this is a bit of grass that we've been working on with volunteers - adding in coastal wildflowers and scrub.
A visit to the Scottish Seabird Centre
On Sunday afternoon we went out to North Berwick for a shorebird walk hosted by the Scottish Seabird Centre. Edinburgh residents got an opportunity to learn more about the shorebirds who call the Firth of Forth home.
Likin’ lichens
We had an excellent (if sometimes grey) morning with Dr Rebecca Yahr, Lichenologist, from the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh on Sunday. As you'll know, the Edinburgh Shoreline project is run by the Botanics, so we're lucky enough to work with Becky, but Sunday was all about unleashing her on the general public, and what a day it was!
Introducing Emily, Volunteer Coordinator at the Scottish Seabird Centre
Emily Burton is the new Volunteer Coordinator appointed to work on the Wild Line project on behalf of the Scottish Seabird Centre and will be leading teams of volunteers in invasive species removal in East Lothian. Hop over to the centre's blog page to find out more, and how you can get involved.
Call for Wild Line Project volunteers
Our project partners at the Scottish Seabird Centre are on the look out for volunteers to be involved with the Wild Line project.
A muddy, marvelous visit to RSPB Skinflats reserve
On Thursday 10th October we visited the RSPB Skinflats reserve near Falkirk with 36 P7 pupils from Craigentinny Primary School. Reserve Warden Allison and volunteers Grant and Nicola hosted us for a great session exploring the different habitats found on the site and the birds and animals that call it home.
Community map on display at the City Chambers
For anyone that has recently visited the City Chambers, you might have spied the community map we made earlier this year on display in the main foyer. Director of Place for the City of Edinburgh Council, Paul Lawrence, was kind enough to offer to have the map on display having seen it at our celebration […]
Knee deep in the Brunstane Burn
Edinburgh Shoreline staff and volunteers spent a very pleasant Saturday in the Brunstane Burn with the Forth Rivers Trust, learning to survey invertebrates. Many thanks to Amy and Jonathan for spending a Saturday with us.
A visit to the RBGE Nursery
Many thanks to our super colleague Martine Borge, the Scottish Native Plant Horticulturist here at the Botanics, for hosting a group of residents from Wardie Bay Resident Association today.
Old Portobello photographs on display
A rare collection of colour photographs of Portobello during the 1950s and 60s have gone on display at Portobello library, Rosefield Avenue.
Edinburgh Shoreline Meets Western Harbour Ponds Group
The Firth of Forth is a designated SPA and internationally important for resident and migratory birds some of which are at risk of decline. However Edinburgh’s 27 of coast is 70% hard sea defences and the intertidal areas left are shrinking due to climate change. Western Harbour Ponds is a very special place next to […]
Edinburgh Shoreline Meets Tommy Dale, East Lothian
We at Edinburgh Shoreline were keen to meet a representative of the Dale family in East Lothian who run a number of businesses in East Lothian and are farmers, fishers, founder members of the Lobster Hatchery at North Berwick and they own the seagrass site at Tyninghame where Restoration Forth have been working over the […]
Edinburgh Shoreline Meets Jane McMinn at North Berwick
Jane lives on the sea front in North Berwick with stunning views over the sea, east to the Bass Rock and West to the Edinburgh skyline. We looked out from her balcony as the sun set behind the Pentland hills at the recently revealed concrete line of the sewer usually covered by xxx feet of […]
Edinburgh Shoreline Meets Archie Johnston at Cockenzie
Archie started fishing in 1952. His great grandfather, grandfather and father were all fishermen as well as his son and grandson. So, fishing for the Johnstons is very much a family generational thing. His grandfather, who he lived with, fished for oysters. He remembers they were mostly sold to the French and Spaniards. The […]
Edinburgh Shoreline Meets Bill Simpson – Seahunter Marine
Bill Simpson is the latest character in a series of interviews undertaken to get an insight into the lives of people who work on or even in the Firth of Forth. People who spend their lives on boats, diving, fishing or undertaking contract work, many of whom have incredible long term knowledge of the local […]
Edinburgh Shoreline Meets Mark Blyth At The Diver Bunker – Burntisland
Leonie and Caitlin Godfrey met up with Mark Blyth to talk about his diving experience in the Firth of Forth and discuss potential oyster basket trail site areas. When I met Joe Terburgh – the razor clam diver – he mentioned his friend Mark Blyth who runs the Dive Bunker https://www.divebunker.co.uk/ at Burntisland in Fife […]
Edinburgh Shoreline meets Frank Neate at Aberlady Bay
Leonie, Esther Thomsen and Marie Seraphim had a recent outing to Aberlady Bay LNR where they had arranged to meet local resident Frank Neate. Marie and Esther are both seagrass experts and part of the Restoration Forth project which aims to reintroduce oysters to the Firth of Forth and to augment and create new seagrass […]
Edinburgh Shoreline meets Joe Terburgh – Lobster fisherman and diver in the Firth of Forth
On Friday 5th May Leonie met up with Joe Terburgh to talk about his experience and observations as a diver and inshore fisherman in the Firth of Forth. We met at Port Seton harbour where he was cleaning out the boat engine which had become contaminated by what is referred to as diesel bug – […]