The weekly walk around Murdieston Dams took place in wet and windy weather today. The Black headed Gulls have now completely gone, and been replaced by loafing Lesser black backs. The Mute Swan pair seem to have given up their nesting attempt (hopefully only temporarily) and Mallard numbers are down to a handful of males (presumably the females are on eggs). Biggest surprise was a new bird for the site - a male Reed Bunting scraping in the leaf litter on the south bank of the main dam - and a probable pair flushed from the water's edge.
Tuesday, April 07, 2009
"The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls".
- - - - - - - - John Muir, 1838-1914 - -
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