The week of very fine weather broke today. Some rain & hail. Went for a short walk along the River Kelvin. Plenty to see despite the rain.
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Glen Douglas trio. Hills very dry. A few flowers, wood anemone , lousewort, lesser celandine. Most on the south slope of Ben Reoch & among tree planting on Tullich hill. Larks, pipets & ravens on the hill. Only 3 deer, stags with newish antlers. Some nice new sundew & a wheatear by the road. First Tormentil (one flower).
A walk this afternoon around the old building in Gartnavel & Bingham pond.
Yesterday: Wandering around the Kilpatrick Braes, out to Duncolm & Fynloch hill. Cold start but warmed up. Flowers beginning to blossom, lots of bird song in the trees. A nuthatch piping. Raven croaking in the hills. A few peacock & orange tip butterflies.
Walking round the loop above Finlas Water yesterday. Another blue sky day. Tops still brown but dry. Deer & skylarks around most of the day, a few ravens. Some bumble bees looking for nests. Green veined whites flying around between the reservoir & the car.
Greenside, warn and clear. Lots of birdsong, goldfinches, lots of chiffchaff. Stonechat, wrens, tits, and more. Butterflies, peacocks, small tortoiseshell & orange tips. Primroses are out.
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Milngavie to home via the Kelvin. Blue sky, sunshine & a cool breeze. Lesser celandine, wood anemones & lots of few-flowered leek. The blackthorn well out, some willow catkins.
A few peacock butterflies & a green veined white. A glimpse of a kingfisher on the Allander water. Bit of bird song, chiffchaffs, blue & great tits, goldfinches & more. A couple of peewit in the distance.
Walking up the Kelvin this afternoon, past where the Wyndford High Rise flats were demolished earlier in the day. Everything was covered in dust, almost like a mono chrome filter.
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It is beginning to sound like spring.
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Metrological spring evening in Victoria Park; a storm toppled tree still blossoms; the first frog spawn in the small pond; feels like there might be frost tonight.
It was quite sunny yesterday as I left work. Watched this tree bumblebee going around the crocus.
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Warm sunny, for February, day. River running brown and high. I spent a few minutes sitting, watching a kingfisher across the river. Dived a few times and came up lucky a couple. One wee fish took a bit of subduing and was bashed off a branch a few times.
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Another B&W image, testing pootlephotos.com
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The Last Apple.
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Along Troon shore, stared rainy and cold, got a little warmer and changed to dull. Lots of dog walkers. But I saw quite a few birds. Greenfinch, stonechats & linnets on the dune side. Turnstone, sanderling and redshank at the edge of the sea. Took blurry photos of them all. Good enough for id & iNaturalist. Also a small dead porpoise washed up on the sand.
Walked part of the Finlas Loop yesterday. Sparking hill day, snow. A lot of deer. Deer seem less inclined to run off in the winter. Fox track all over. A glimpse of an eagle, later watched for 10-15 minutes as it circled back and forth along the skyline above.
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Winter Flora along the Forth & Clyde Canal.
Had a walk along the Forth & Clyde this afternoon. Weather mild & gray.