Walk with Christine yesterday afternoon. Unusually quiet, only a couple of folk around. Map & photos:
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Butterfly Day. Walking to Greenside Reservoir this afternoon. Felt like summer. Lots of butterflies. I’d guess over a hundred ringlets, a few meadow browns, some dark green and small pearl-bordered fritillaries, a couple of common blues.
Beinn Bhreac & Ben Reoch yesterday.
Flora:
Bog Asphodel
Bog Myrtle
Bog Cotton
Tormentil
Fox gloves
Marsh orchid
Eye bright
Bedstraw
Milkwort
Bog heather
Bell heather
Saxifrage
Lousewort
Marsh thistle
map & notes
Small Heath Butterfly on Thyme, seen on the walk up to Greenside Reservoir today. Lots of Ringlets and Goldfinches.
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.
Short walk along the pipe track at Strathblane this afternoon. Quite warm and sunny. Lots of Orange Tip butterflies & a few whites around. A few more photos on flickr.
Walk to Greenside: First Orange Tip Butterfly this year. A couple of peacocks too. Singing: cuckoo, willow warblers & chiffchaff, goldfinches. Lots of primroses in damp places.
Walking with Christine & Michael, up Troisgeach and over to Meall an Fhudair. The first cuckoo & lizards of the year. No deer or ravens, and eagle or two. Ptarmigan & Wheatear. Surprisingly dry underfoot and the lack of growth made for easier walking. walkmap
As we got to the top of the hill a golden eagle came from behind it at about our height. It soared, folded its wings and dived. Another appeared and they crossed the glen soaring and diving all the way. To entranced to lift my camera.
Short walk around lunchtime near Cochno, dreich, drizzle & rain, good to be out.