Today started with a Dipper speeding under the Benalder Street Bridge in Yorkhill. This afternoon, a walk through the Barrhead Dams found Balgray, Ryatt Linn and Waulkmill Glen Reservoirs all completely frozen. As a result, the normally quiet Littleton Reservoir was packed with birds. Most notable were 30 Teal and two Wigeon, neither of which are regular here. Also unusual (but not unexpected) was a Snipe which flew up from the feeder channel. A notable concentration of 33 Mute Swans was complemented by 5 Whoopers (with five more overhead). The second Dipper of the day was on the lade channel and the hedgerows in Waulkmill Glen were full of Fieldfares, Blackbirds and Redwings.
Sunday, December 12, 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".
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