Walk with Christine yesterday afternoon. Unusually quiet, only a couple of folk around. Map & photos:
walkmapTag: Kilpatrick Braes
This photo from yesterday gave me a smile. I thought I’d caught the #bee on the meadowsweet. #BloomScrolling #bees
Walked to Loch Humphrey this morn. Warm, cloudy a slight breeze. The ground sparkling with flowers. Meadowsweet coming out. Plenty of birds too. Whitethroat singing in the new trees. A skylark bathing in the path dust. Butterflies: Meadow Browns, Ringlets & a Small pearl-bordered Fritillary.
Dad’s day walk to Duncolm in the rain this morning. Lots of wee flowers. Plenty of birds too. Young warblers hiding in the bracken. Cuckoos calling, a pair flew by. Whinchat and Wheatear on the moor, larks and more.
#BloomScrolling, #Flora, #BloomStrolling
Had a short walk around Kilpatrick Muir this morning. Heard but didn’t see green woodpeckers. Did spot a couple of peacock butterflies. The first this year for me.
Kilpatrick: First hawthorn leaves, just & no more. Blackthorn buds, later here. Buzzard, larks, raven, grouse & goldfinch. Lesser celandine, golden saxifrage & First primrose. Trees on the moor bare.
Short walk on Braes, last harebells & yarrow, blackberries & heather finished except for few bell heathers still purple. First redwings in the hawthorn.
Had a short walk around the braes, heather very purple, few butterflies around, and a couple of big dark blue dragonflies.
Flora on Kilpatrick muir, At the back, common ling & bell heather. Some blaeberry leaves poking through. At the front, yellow bedstraw, harebells, yarrow, willow herb. Grasses with seed heads, Yorkshire fog and others.