Working to protect and improve Edinburgh's river, for the benefit of wildlife and visitors to it A healthy river cared for by its community
Edinburgh, UK
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Fancy something different to celebrate the changing season - join our Samhain inspired Summer's End event on 25th October. Book your start time from 3pm onwards. £5 per person. waterofleith.org.uk/events/s…
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Where can you walk 23,000 steps and barely find any #litter?
Water of Leith Walkway! 💚
I only filled a bag because I carried on around Balerno. A splendid day for it too ☀️ – at Currie, Scotland
A dedicated team of nineteen were out today from the Edinburgh office of Blackrock making a difference on the walkway.
They did a huge rake & brush of soggy leaves from Dean Bridge to St Bernard's bridge. Followed by a cut back along the Damside path.
Top effort folks
#csr – at Edinburgh, Scotland
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Another fabulous turn out for today's session around Balgreen! We swept leaves and trimmed vegetation from paths, planted and weeded in the Community Garden, weeded the bridges over to Murrayfield, and coppiced willow to use in other projects. Litter picking too obviously!
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Was out for my lunchbreak walk and thought to myself I never really see any new species here then on last stretch in way back saw this cute as a button Little Grebe 🥰
Water of Leith , Edinburgh
#Birds #BirdsSeenIn2026
Great turn out in Balerno to help with sweeping leaves and removing some old fence posts from Graham's Garden in preperation for the imminent new drystane wall to be built. We also removed some invasive snowberry and did some planting in the garden. Very productive, thanks folks!
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Goosander steaming towards me on psychedelic water at full speed on my lunchtime walk today 🌈😎🏴
Water of Leith, Edinburgh
#birds #BirdsSeenIn2026
#Scotland
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The Leith "Minions" looming over the Victoria Swing Bridge at The Shore, Edinburgh.
"The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one, they said".
A great morning down at Bells with a team from the Edinburgh office of @WoodMackenzie .
On the menu today was raking the meadow and sowing yellow rattle.
Willow spiling to reduce bank erosion.
Clearing the walkway of leaves.
Refreshing the soakaway drain.
Top work team 👏 👍
It’s not all messing about in rivers! Monday’s AGM saw a fantastic turnout of members and volunteers, a great presentation on the Murrayburn, and a toast to another successful year. 🥂
Read our Annual Report
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A sunny session down in Leith at our monthly clean up.
We protected the local environment clearing a large pile of rubbish.
Maintained the walkway clearing leaves and reclaiming the width.
Removed taggiing and adding additional plants
#civicpride @Edinburgh_CC – at Edinburgh, Scotland
A busy day for staff from the Edinburgh office of @AECOM at our visitor centre. They rolled up their sleeves to help get it ready for our Summer's End event on the 25th of Oct.
Then took to the river wading removing several bags of waste to keep the river healthy
Top work – at Newcraighall, Scotland
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September's 'Wildlife on the Water of Leith' video features:
- Otters under attack
- hedgehog preparing for hibernation
- heron's amazing vision
Plus lots more!
#wildlife #waterofleith #Edinburgh #urbanwildlife
A breezy session at Longstone this morning.
The volunteers planted 240 trees to boost the biodiversity next to Saughton Prison.
Removed nine bags of litter, 1 mattress and a foot spa.
Trimmed back the prison path to keep it useable for the local community.
#civicpride – at Edinburgh, Scotland
A busy 2nd quarter with 2,706 hours of practical volunteering recorded, making the running total 5332 hours.
After the big spring clean we've moved to a more diverse list of tasks on the wallway, treating INNS biological surveys and wildflower scything – at Newcraighall, Scotland
As the seasons change its that time of year when we begin our fungi surveys of Craiglockhart and Colinton Dells.
Thus it was great to get out for a refresher on the @FieldStudiesC Autumn Fungi course run by Chris Knowles.
Lots of knowledge gained and ready to be put into action – at Newcraighall, Scotland
