Primrose
Tag: Kilpatrick Braes
Kilpatrick Braes. Had a short walk this morning. Cold and bright, a few more signs of spring. 3 roe in the woods, one with very patchy hair.
Black on Blue
Kilpatrick Muir
Blue skies
5 jays sidling off
Larks
The first primrose
A roe watching through the trees
No blackthorn yet, tiny buds
A weasel nipping across the road
Met a Scary Tree yesterday morning.
Larch
Kilpatrick Braes First for a while the lockdown crowds seem to have gone.
Lots of flora: yarrow, thyme & ladies bedstraw in the fields. Bell heather, heath bedstraw & tormentil on the moor. First Blaeberries Lots of Ringlets, a few fritillaries when the sun appeared.
Kilpatrick – Loch Humphrey: A bright sunny day, little breeze & hardly a cloud.
Hawthorn in full flower. A woodpecker flitting.
Cuckoos calling & couple seen in the distance. Plenty of butterflies.
Trees in leaf, just the ash lagging. Bracken & ferns unfurling.
Glorious morning on the Kilpatrick Braes. Blue skies, a touch of frost, not much breeze. Icicles, primrose, larks. walkmap
A last holiday walk this morning out to Duncolm. Great view of hills surrounding Loch Lomond. Photo not so great. walkmap