An early start and crisp blue skies enabled a walk along the canal from Polmont to Linlithgow, and then around Linlithgow Loch. Highlights included a Grey Heron and a Goosander glimpsed from the viaduct over the Avon Gorge, another two (flying) Goosanders and a partial albino Blackbird on the outskirts of Linlithgow, and a range of waterfowl watched at close range on the loch (including a very tame Shelduck and a Coot riding on the back of a Mute Swan). No sign of the wintering female Smew.
Saturday, January 30, 2010
"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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