Managed a short walk around Arkleston Farm and down through Ralston this afternoon. Best bird of the walk was one that got away - a small, brown raptor perched on the hedge which runs along the Hillington side of the farm. It was probably a female Sparrowhawk, but just might have been a female Merlin. Other notable sightings were several small parties of Fieldfares around the farm, a sizeable flock of Siskins in the conifers west of the golf course and two flocks of Waxwings - 80 flying up Penilee Road and another 80 (or the same) perched in a tree in front of Ralston Community Centre.
Sunday, January 02, 2011
"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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