Spent this afternoon around Loch Doon in south Ayrshire. Weather was very mixed but managed a walk between the mouths of the Carrick Lane (top) and Gala Lane (second photo). Highlights included plenty of singing Coal Tits and Goldcrests in the conifer plantations and two Crossbills in the garden of an abandoned sheiling (bottom photo). Also of interest were the ruins of Loch Doon Castle and late snow on Corserine (below).

Friday, March 07, 2008

Spent the morning at a meeting in the west end of Glasgow, then passed Bingham Pond on the way back to the car. Not much of note there apart from good numbers of Tufted Duck and Mallard. Birding highlights on the way home from Greenock included around 30 Starlings in a tight flock over the Port Glasgow Road and a Common Buzzard swooping low over the M8 at the Bishopton bend.