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Edinburgh, our Edinburgh Festival Fringe show with Wide Days & Made in Scotland is in one week today La Belle Angele on 15 August! The amazing Zé Leônidas is joining us on vocals all the way from Berlin for a very exciting live premiere🇧🇷, alongside other guests. Tickets in bio - don't miss it!

THIS WEEK! Eight of Scotland’s best new acts at La Belle Angele! WED 14th INDOOR FOXES + Comfort + 𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑩𝑰𝑮 𝑫𝑨𝒀 + Gallus THU 15th Iona Fyfe + Gnoss + Zoe Graham + Nimbus Sextet Find out more and get tickets - wide.ink/mis

Wide Days that was immense ❤ . So special having Brazilian vocalist Zé Leônidas join us for the first time all the way from Berlin. Thank you Edinburgh Festival Fringe La Belle Angele🙏 What a summer debuting new music and shows with an expanded line-up. This is only the beginning 👀

Probable juvenile Montagu's Harrier west 12:20 from Musselburgh seawall; lost towards Leith. Difficult to fully clinch it at distance but main features pointed to Monty's. Capping off a decent month's patching; other highlights Stejneger's Scoter & Curlew Sand Birding Lothian

Juv dark morph Pom Skua off Musselburgh seawall early afternoon, harrying gulls then heading east. Eventful start to the month here with up to 4 Little Stint, 4 Curlew Sand, Red-necked & Slav Grebe, + 17 Pale-bellied Brent at Esk Mouth yday (here's some of them) Birding Lothian

Yellow-browed Warbler at the wire dump, and another alongside a Pied Fly in the old campsite wood at Barns Ness this afternoon. A productive seawatch at Seacliff yesterday with 3 Sooty Shearwater the highlight, plus several Manxies and Arctic Skua moving through Birding Lothian

Arrivals coinciding nicely with my new camera setup. 350+ Barnacle Geese through on Tuesday at Musselburgh, with some colour-ringed birds on the scrapes. 4 Sooty Shear, 42 Manx, 8 Arctic Tern & 5 Arctic Skua also that day; and a Short-eared Owl at Aberlady on Sat Birding Lothian

The Musselburgh patch still produces nice birds, even when it's quieter. Two Whooper Swan on the scrapes on Friday, and one of two Med Gulls at the Esk Mouth in the last week. Also 2 each of Red-necked and Slavonian Grebe offshore, & close roosting Barnacle Goose Birding Lothian

Nice autumn arrivals at Musselburgh. Maximum of 12 Twite by the seawall, with 9 more at Barns Ness & vismigging 400+ Redwing on Fri. Late birds at Muss include 2 Ruff, Blackwit and Swallow, plus more seasonal 18 Whooper Swan (13 new lagoons) & showy Med Gull Birding Lothian

There you are! We're playing a gig in London! Monday November 18th, Servant Jazz Quarters, Dalston. Come one, come all! Ticket link in bio❤️

Smart adult Med Gull bathing near the Esk Mouth at Musselburgh this week Birding Lothian

This dapper Snow Bunting was briefly at Whitberry Point, Tyninghame this afternoon; also a Red-necked Grebe, 4 Puffin, Great Northern Diver, 20 RT Diver and 2 Arctic Skua in ideal still conditions offshore Birding Lothian

3 Little Auk on the sea off Fisherrow this afternoon were only my second record from the flat window. Also 13 Twite along the seawall Birding Lothian

Storm Darragh delivered two Little Auks off Musselburgh this afternoon; one alive and well and the other meeting a dramatic demise by a GBBG. Also Great Northern Diver west Birding Lothian

Honoured that my group Nimbus Sextet 's single 'Searching' has been included in Craig Charles' Craig Charles 's best releases of 2024 on BBC Radio 6 Music 🙏 . Check the single out via my website ☝️. Lots of love went into this; delighted it's getting more back ❤️

"Get off"! Leopard pair in the Kruger National Park, with the female flinging the male aside seconds after mating. Unforgettable moment from an exceptionally special trip to South Africa 🇿🇦 . Still trying to digest it all! More shots to come 🙃 #leopard #krugernationalpark

Four apex predators: African Wild Dog, Leopard, Lion and Spotted Hyena. Kruger National Park, December 2024 🇿🇦 . Loved every minute! #krugernationalpark

Southern Ground Hornbill chucking its prey into the air before swallowing it whole; Kruger National Park. Ingenious birds! Definitely one of my main birding highlights in South Africa 🇿🇦

The birding in South Africa over Christmas and New Year was absolutely superb. 223 species in 18 days on a non-birding holiday, taking in the Kruger NP, coastal KwaZulu-Natal & the Cape Peninsula/Cape Town. Here are some photo highlights. Mind-expanding and unforgettable!

We can't wait to be back Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club on 28 May! Three part horn section, vocal guests and debuting brand new material. It's going to be so special! Tickets on sale now, grab yours quick (link in bio) !