Two Wheatears were showing well along the path to The Whangie first thing this morning. A temperature inversion had coated the whole of Stokiemuir and the Blane valley in a blanket of thick mist. However Auchineden Hill was completely clear. Meadow Pipit was the commonest species around the Whangie but thirty Linnets and a Stonechat were also present and lots of House Martins and Swallows were feeding overhead. Burncrooks reservoir had few birds apart from a family of Stonecahts and two Reed Buntings. However butterflies were well represented with Peacock, Red Admiral, Small Copper, Small Heath and Green-veined White. A lochan near the pumping station held several Blue-tailed Damselflies.