A marked improvement in the weather meant an afternoon down the Clyde coast seemed a good idea. Several species were showing signs of breeding behaviour: three Jackdaws were mobbing a Carrion Crow which got too close to their Shore Street, Gourock chimney pot, a male Pied Wagtail was displaying to a female with exaggerated bowing movements in a muddy field corner at Lunderston Bay and a female House Sparrow was soliciting to two males on a wall behind Gourock shops. Some good local birds included a Wheatear (presumably a migrant), nine Sandwich Terns, a Linnet and a pair of Ringed Plovers (all in Lunderston Bay). Twelve Gannets were feeding out in the bay (with a single off Kempock Point). Flowering plants consisted of: Birds-foot Trefoil; Bluebell; a Buttercup species; Comfry; Common Scurvey-grass; Cuckoo Flower; Daisy; a Dandelion species; Gorse; Marsh Marigold; a Plantain species; Red Campion; a Speedwell species; Thrift; an Umbellifer species; a Vetch species and Wild Garlic.
Saturday, May 11, 2019
"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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