This was the day of the first timed summer visit to the tetrad centred on Rosshall Farm. The day started cold, with quite a lot of grass frost. However birds were very active and some good sightings followed. Probably most significant were an amazing nine singing Whitethroats between Silver Glade and Hawkhead. Also notable were a Sparrowhawk being mobbed by 20 Starlings at Hawkhead and a Stock Dove along the river west of the Leverndale gate (the first I've seen in the whole patch). This afternoon, a long walk around Mugdock Park failed to turn up anything notable, but three Hares gave close views at the gunsight (24,227).
Saturday, May 08, 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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- An excellent day of natural connections. Managed t...
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