Bright with a fair breeze.
Meadowsweet, Thyme Bell heather. First ripe blaeberries.
A day for butterflies:
Ringlet, Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary, Small Heath, Small Copper, Painted Lady, Red Admiral, Green Veined White, Meadow Brown, Peacock Caterpillars
More photos and walkmap
The weather was supposed to be rainy, turned out quite breezy, lots of clouds but no rain on me.
Walked a couple of miles or so towards Firpark from Anniesland and back.
Plenty of flowers. Usual moorhens and ducks.
Warm, overcast & muggy
Flora, orchard, tormentil, buttercup, valerian, yarrow, bedstraw, speedwell, forget-me-not, pignut
Fauna, damselflies blue & red, dragonflies, Ringlets, Small heath, pearl-bordered Fritillary, painted lady, tiger moth, A Common lizard 1st here
Walknotes Ardinning 2019-06-22
Lots of blue damselflies a couple of red ones. Plenty of dragonflies.
Small Heath butterflies.
A small pearl-bordered Fritillary.
First Orchids.
A cuckoo calling.
The selfie stick useful for Fritillary.
Warm little breeze some clouds.
I took a short walk round the moor behind Old Kilpatrick this afternoon. Using the shure mic with dead cat on my phone. A test in fairly breezy conditions. Gain right down and mic beside mouth.
Beinn Dubhchraig & Loch Oss. Yesterday’s walk, familiar territory unfamiliar route.
walkmap
Up to Loch Humphrey. The usual route. Bright sunny, nice breeze.The hawthorn mostly out. St Marks flies lower down. Butterflies, peacocks, whites, orange tips and small coppers. A couple more to fast to recognise. A kestrel buzzed by swallows. Oak getting leaves at last.
Walk with Christine.
A cuckoo kept ahead of us on the way up to the dam. A one point going down into the grass and then onto a rock with a large wooly bear in its beak.
A dozen Red deer on the way up from the dam.
At around 11 am, rain expected turned out to be snow, a cold half an hour. Brightened up a little after that.
A good day.
walkmapTotal distance: 12.46 miles
time moving: 5:33’31”
total time: 6:24’10”
moving speed: 2.24 mph
total speed: 1.95 mph
lowest point: 78 ft
highest point: 2299 ft
elevation gain: 4113 ft
elevation loss: 4137 ft
Overtoun and Lang Craigs. Walked up to Black Linn this afternoon with Dorothy.
photos on the walkmap
Overcast quite cold compared to last week, a little breeze. It rained for a couple of minutes, Cold rain.
The trees are all in leaf now, even the oak starting to unfurl.
Comfrey and apple blossom. Lots of woodruff under the trees.
The small bluebell patches neat the entrance are fully out.
A reed bunting among the other wee birds in the trees near the loch.
A couple of Great Crested Grebe (I think) on the loch.
The moor grass, heather and bracken is still pretty dead. Very dry underfoot today.
Heard a few cuckoos. A couple of jays flew across the moor.
Some lapwings, one harrying a buzzard.
