Friday, June 08, 2012

SOC Walk Galloway House Gardens & Cruggleton Bay 5th May 2012 pm

A lovely day, we met at the Galloway House Gardens Car park for a West Galloway Scottish Ornithological Club walk.

1-Avenue

Avenue of trees leading to the house.

2-rhodos

The rhododendrons are stunning at this time of year!

3-robin

We soon started seeing our first birds,Robin, Blackcap and Song Thrush were spotted first and Willow Warbler and Chiffchaff heard

4-wild-garlic

Wild Garlic alongside the old walled garden

5-West-Galloway-SOC

Watching Wimbrels and Sandwich Terns in the bay

6-old-tree

This lovely old trees branches have touched the ground and rooted

7-shelduck

Shelduck on the shore

8-chaffinch-fledgling

Juvenile Chaffinch waiting to be fed

9-slime-mould

Slime mould

10-pond

This pond in the gardens was full of life including tadpoles, newts and water beetles

11-bluebells

English bluebells

12-shrub

Not sure what this is but it was very pretty

13-rhodos

Path lined with rhododendrons

14-ferns

Tree ferns

15-old-tree

There are some beautiful old trees in this garden

16-bark

Some with interesting bark

17-Galloway-House

Galloway House

18-lamb

These delightful brown lambs were near the carpark.

Galloway House Gardens are well worth a visit, find out more on their website:

http://www.gallowayhousegardens.co.uk/

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