A Blackbird singing along the river this afternoon was my first singing bird of the year. Snowdrop flowers are now everywhere as are fresh leaves of Wild Garlic.

Another busy day doing non-birding things, but a short walk around ralston and Crookston produced all the usual town birds plus two singing Greenfinches.

A busy day painting in Woodfarm today, so the only natural connections were the sounds of the local birds outside the back door. 

Two male Stock Doves were singing quite close to eachother along the riverside path this lunchtime, in spite of strong winds and heavy rain.

Plenty of birds were singing in the woods at the foot of the Gleniffer Braes today including Nuthatch.

The patch of Daffodils at woodfarm which provided my first flower of the year did so again about a week ago. i stopped to have a closer look today and found four or five flowers open. Over in Paisley, Jackdaws were milling excitedly around the tenement chimneys along Wellmeadow.

Blue Tit, Wren, Robin and Dunnock were all singing outside the house in Woodfarm today, although they stopped temporarily when quite a severe (but short-lived) squall passed through.