{"id":21105,"date":"2025-08-20T19:06:37","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T18:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?p=21105"},"modified":"2025-08-20T20:18:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T19:18:16","slug":"river-kelvin-walk-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/river-kelvin-walk-2\/","title":{"rendered":"River Kelvin Walk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On Monday I was planning a walk but it felt a bit hot to go to the hills. I got the train to Milngavie and walked back down the Kelvin walkway to Glasgow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Saw the first kingfisher on the Allander water which kept my eyes on every overhanging branch for a while.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both the Allander and the Kelvin are lined with the pink stink of Himalayan Balsam. The path quite overgrown in places with nettles, thistles & brambles making shorts a poor choice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite the warm weather the rivers are quite full. Less butterflies than I expected, green-veined whites all long the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Everything seems to have come to autumn early, brambles, acorns and already red hawthorn berries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once back in Glasgow I was looking across the river and saw a reflecting, the colour and shape of a foxes ear. Lying in the balsam above was a young looking fox. It didn’t look quite right, spread and very still. Zooming in I couldn’t see breathing and it was still when I made a loud clap. My second kingfisher of the day arrowed past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once I got to the science park I saw a couple of specked woods. Birds along the way: a kestrel, mobbed by wee birds; warblers, and goldfinches. I watched one goldfinch feeding a youngster in those incongruous hawthorn berries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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