One of the highlights of today's walk from Renfrew to Loch Lomond was a sigting of three drake Mandarins feeding with Mallards at Balloch. Other notable sightings included regular sightings of Grey Heron, Cormorant and Moorhen plus plenty of Mallards and Tufted Ducks but no Kingfishers, Dippers or Grey Wagtails, Goldeneye at two points on the canal, at least two sizeable (10+) flocks of Siskins with smaller numbers at various other sites and twelve Bullfinches feeding together under a hedge on the edge of a Dumbarton park. Altogether the walk yielded 300 sightings for birdtrack, equating to 48 species.
Friday, February 09, 2018
"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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