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Natural Connections

Modern life in Scotland is increasingly busy. The connections our ancestors had with nature and the land are being lost. As leisure time shrinks, or is filled with hi-tech experiences, opportunities to experience nature become fewer. And yet it is possible to connect with nature on a day to day basis. All around us, the great web of life continues to hold its shape, and nature continues its eternal cycles. Keep looking, listening, smelling, touching - and keep experiencing natural connections.

Saturday, April 24, 2010

Enjoyed a very pleasant walk from Blackness to Linlithgow via Bo'ness today (photos one and two below). Highlights included close views of prospecting Shelduck along the foreshore, plenty of Linnets in a weedy field at Bonnytoun, a Tree Sparrow near the east end of the loch and three cracking spring Wheatears (113. Could they have been Greenlands?) in a ploughed field at Aingath.
Back home the water level in the Cart was particularly low this evening with quite a lot of mud exposed. Notable sightings during this evening's walk included a pair of Goosanders (still) and a virtually pure Hooded Crow feeding with mixed corvids at Rosshall Farm.
On another subject, the local authority has done a great job of renovating the dilapidated tenements at Crookston Cross (bottom photo). (37,353)..

posted by wellchoughed @ 9:39 pm

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