An excellent day of natural connections began with a walk from home over to Partick, and ended with a walk from the Barrhead Dams back down to home. Highlights were many including the first Chiffchaff back in the Silver Glade area (calling behind the house), Coltsfoot on waste ground near the Glasgow Science Centre (my first of the year), a pair of Grey Wagtails on the Kelvin, 30 Sand Martins over Balgray Reservoir (again, my first of the year), two Whooper Swans on Littleton Reservoir, three Bullfinches (and flowering Butterbur) in Waulkmill Glen, up to 15 Starlings roosting noisily in an impossibly small patch of creeper on the front wall of a small terraced house in Pollock, and a pair of Mallards on the grass verge down the middle of Linthaugh Road.

News on the weather front is of a huge band of snow due to move through central Scotland from east to west during the next 24 hours.

Narcissi beside the Clydeside Expressway

Butterbur in Waulkmill Glen

Darnley's answer to the Potala Palace