Tuesday, August 07, 2012
"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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- Heavy rain caused more flooding in WCS. A Swallow...
- Two House Martins were over the Cardonald Gardens ...
- Baron's Haugh was quiet this afternoon, with very...
- News from the web is that returning waders are sta...
- Yesterday's predominant sound (in Aviemore) was t...
- Highlights of a brief stop at Pitlochry were two...
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2 Comments:
Large flocks of seagulls over the office this afternoon - probably 200-300 - taking advantage of the warm thermals. May have been a coincidence but we also had 4 oyster catchers walking all over the car park all afternoon. I think it was a male and female and two young ones. Hope they can get back to the river, it's several miles.
Hi Guinivere200,
it is always nice to see Oystercatchers in urban settings (I once saw one flying between the high flats at Tarfside Oval in Cardonald). They have taken to nesting on the tops of buildings over the past few decades (perhaps they always did) so your birds might have been breeding nearby.
There is a good chance that the gulls were feeding on flying ants. These hatch out on warm days and take to the air en masse, often attracting gulls, crows, swallows and anything else that will eat them.
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