Sunday, May 12, 2013

Dunskey Glen–11th May 2013

Sunshine and showers, so set off on one of our favourite local walks at Dunskey Glen to look for signs of spring. Plenty of birds about, busily nesting, we counted 35 species in total!

1-beech-leaves

Great to see the beech trees finally have leaves!

2-Dunskey-Glen

Avenue

3-Port-Mora

Port Mora

4-Port-Kale

Port Kale

5-Port-Kale

 

6-Ringed-plover

A pair of Ringed Plovers were on the shore line…

7-Ringed-plover

…they often nest here as last year we found chicks

8-Ringed-plover

 

9-Spring-Squill

Spring Squill just coming out

10-gulls

Herring Gulls

11-crowberry

Crowberry

12-port-kale

Port Kale, the Southern Upland way passes here

13-coastal-interpretation-centre

The old Coastal Interpretation Centre, not sure when it was last used

14-burn

Plenty of water in the burn today

15-violets

Wet Violets after a heavy shower

16-gorse

Gorse

17-ground-ivy

Ground Ivy

18-thrift

Thrift

19-sea-campion

Sea Campion

20-bluebells

Bluebells

21-bridge

Bridge

22-scurvygrass

Scurvygrass

We would normally now return on the lower path up through the glen but it was closed as it is in a dangerous state so we had to retrace our steps.

23-pheasant

Male Pheasant

24-grass

Grass patterns

25-beech-leaves

Fresh beech leaves

26-bluebells

Bluebells only just coming out, very late this year

27-songthrush

Song Thrush

28-wee-coo

Wee coo

29-roe-deer

I was’t quite quick enough with this shot, the Roe Deer saw us and took flight!

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