Rain was forecast in most of the area but the Mull of Galloway looked best so we headed south.
Blue Sky!
Pipit
I don’t know how often they paint it but the lighthouse always looks smart
The well hidden Gallie Craig Tea Room with its grass roof
Blue, blue sea
Clouds are gathering
Young Wheatear on lighthouse wall
6 Spot Burnet moth
Common Garden Snail (Cornu aspersum)
Snail Cepaea sp
Copse Snail (Arianta arbustorum)
It always fascinates me just how many snails gather on the lighthouse garden wall, mostly common garden snails but there are a few different ones
On Saturdays during the summer you can visit the lighthouse, here is a family enjoying the great views!
Cinnabar caterpillar on Ragwort
View of the lighthouse from the foghorn
Scar Rock, 6 miles offshore but part of the RSPB reserve, 200 pairs of gannets nest here
Wee Scars
Nesting kittiwakes on the cliffs
6 Spot Burnet
Pipit
Soldier beetles on wild carrot
Colourful wild flowers
Linnets
Grayling butterfly
View towards Maryport
6 Spot Burnet moth
Meadow Brown butterfly
Sign at the RSPB reserve.
Despite the blue sky, it poured with rain shortly after this so we retreated back to the car for lunch.
Shower over, we set off towards West Tarbet.
Northern Eggar (Lasiocampa quercus form callunae)
Quite friendly!
What a stunning large moth, this is a male, the female is paler and larger but don’t tend to come out in the daytime.
Kittiwakes still with young
Looks like there should be a fantasy castle on that point!
Green-veined White butterfly
Sea cave
View back towards the lighthouse
We had to walk very carefully past these sheep as we didnt want to scare them over the cliff
West Tarbet
This huge rusty tank must have washed up here many years ago
East Tarbet
Linnet
Stonechat
I think we are about to get wet!
Signs for the new path
Back to the lighthouse…
..and the carpark
