The Wig 5th February 2012

A bit of a dull day so just a local walk

Pale-bellied Brent Geese

Grey Plover and Dunlins

Turnstone

Turkey Tail Trametes versicolor

Snowdrops

Water of Minnoch 28th January 2012

A cold and icy day so a nice circular walk along the banks of the Water of Minnoch.

Snowy logs

Icicle

Ice patterns

Ice

Snow lined path

Icicles over the water

Frozen water droplets

Snowy Galloway Hills

Crossbills

More ice

Reflected rushes

Sparkling trees

Ancient woodland

Moss

Hairy Curtain Crust (Stereum hirsutum)

Mist

Metallic ice

Looking for merks in the kist

Moss covered wall

Stone stile

Sticta sylvatica

 

Icicles

Usnea subfloridana

New Cree Valley sign

Snow scene

Ice and snow

Walking the embankment

Dipper..

..and a bit closer

Don’t look round but I think we are being followed!

…by a whole flock!

Bird of prey kill

Sphaerophorus globosus

Tumbling water

Water of Minnoch

Moss covered tree

The swinging pool

The Roman Bridge

 

 

Swirling bubbles

Then on our way back home just as it was getting dark an amazing starling murmuration over Stranraer Harbour….