Edinburgh is quite rightly regarded as a green city, with parks, waterways and gardens combining to provide home to a huge amount of wildlife. This site aims to document that wildlife in photo form, and make it easy for you to see just what shares the city with us, and where you might find it. The creation of the site was sparked partly by my own interest in the wildlife around us, and the Glendale wildlife site operated on Skye.

If you see something interesting, or get a great shot, then just drop me a line at my contact email, either with a picture attached, or with a link to your picture online. We'd recommend not only Flickr for storing and showing your photos online, but also the Edinburgh Wildlife photo group on that site (the group isn't run by me, and this site has no affiliation with the group, but it makes sense as a location for photos if you are using Flickr).

This is your site, and I aim to keep it regularly updated, with newer (or better) images for each species as and when they come in. And even if you don't have a picture I'm always happy to hear of sightings for the sightings page - this will be updated, usually, within 48 hours (I'll always reply to your email), and quite often will be 'tweeted' within a matter of hours.

So what's missing? Well there are loads. As far birds go I don't have pictures of a Sparrowhawk or Buzzard (both of which I've seen in the city), and apparently there are random species such as Mandarin Ducks kicking around from time to time. I think another 20 species of bird at least could be added to this list easily. The mammals are missing otters and badgers and mink and and and. But even if you've got a picture of something that's already on the list, if it's unusual, or a good shot, or in an area that the particular beast isn't listed in yet - email it or a link to me and I'll get it on the site with a full credit.

by species
Click on the 'species' link to see what animals there are, listed as birds, mammals, invertebrates amphibians and (is it possible?) reptiles.

by location
Have a look for animals in your, or any other, area of Edinburgh, as well as some specific parks and waterways.

news/sightings
Latest unusual or interesting sightings can be found here in the regularly updated diary.

everything else
At the bottom of the page are links to our favourite websites, and the email link to let me know your recent sightings. And you can also have a look at the EdinburghWildlife.com twitter feed for the really up to the minute stuff.