Walked from Blackridge to Livingston today. Highlights were clouds of dragonflies and damselflies at Little Boghead nature reserve and a Sparrowhawk being mobbed by Swallows as it soared over Armadale Station. Birds of the walk were Swallows and Goldfinches, both of which cropped up all along the route. Also notable were Chiffchaffs and Willow Warblers giving their slightly different contact calls, and Meadow Pipits wherever there weren't too many houses. Plants included lots of St John's Wort in flower just before Woodhead Junction. Breeding activity included a grey backed Pied/White Wagtail with a beakful of insects at Whiteside Farm, Lesser black-backed Gulls with big chicks on a factory on the edge of Bathgate and a stripey juvenile Little Grebe on one of the Bogburn ponds.