Saturday, May 31, 2014

Mersehead–19th April 2014

A lovely sunny day so we decided on a walk on the beach looking for shells at RSPB Mersehead, it turned into an interesting day!

1-yellowhammer

Yellowhammer from the Visitor Centre

2-Mersehead-Beach

Looks like snow but in fact its crushed cockle shells left by the storms.

3 Pete

The people in the background were lighting a fire on the edge of the dunes. There were 2 lots of fires near the dunes, this is an SSSI, I wish people would be more responsible!

3-Robin-Rigg

Robin Rigg and sparkling sea

4-bomb!

Oops, found a shell, but not quite what we were looking for! It was one of two so we called the Visitor Centre and they arranged for the police to check it out.

5-Small-tortoiseshell

Small Tortoiseshell

6-Police

The police have arrived

7-police

They closed the beach and waited for the bomb disposal team to arrive!

8-beetle

Willow Leaf Beetle (Lochmaea caprea)

weevil

Weevil

9-barnies

Still Barnies about

10-Mersehead

Evening light

11-Mersehead-Woods

Woodland path

Friday, May 23, 2014

Knockquhassen-13th April 2014

A local walk today, on part of the Southern Upland Way to Knockquhassen.
1-dog-violets
Dog Violets
2-wheatear
Distant Wheatear
3-suw
Southern Upland Way marker
4-N-Rhins-Windfarm
North Rhins Windfarm
5-knochquhassen
Towards Knockquhassen and Loch Ryan
6-knockquhassen
Knockquhassen Reservoir
7-Makars-kist
Makars Kist
8-kist
Still some shiny kists to collect
9-drinker
Drinker Moth caterpillar
10-knockquhassen
Knockquhassen Reservoir
Unfortunately we didnt get much further as recent rain had made the path too boggy so we had to turn back.
11 golden-plovers-1
We did however, spot this beautiful flock of Golden Plovers on the way back
12 golden-plovers-2

13-dog-violets
Dog Violets
14-stonechat
Female Stonechat
15-celendines
Celendines
16-fluffy-coo
Fluffy coo
17-squirrel-sign
We didnt see any today but we have in the past seen them here.

Caulkerbush-29th March 2014

A walk round Wild Cat Craigs.

1-tree

Old tree

2-beech-woods

Beech Woods

3-beech-woods

 

4-hut

Hut in the woods

5-old-walls

 

6-wild-daffs

Daffodils

7-wild-daffs

 

8-country-lane

Quiet lane to Boreland of Southwick

9-old-tree

A glimpse of the sun

10-old-tree

 

11-old-tree

 

12-beech-woods

 

13-river

Southwick Burn

14-river

 

15-green-alkanet

Green Alkanet

Three Lochs-22nd March 2014

Another cold dull day and a walk at Three Lochs near Glenluce.

1-greylag

Greylag Goose

2-greylag

 

 

3-toad

Common Toad

4-horse

A New friend!

5-horse

 

6-dead-shrew

Dead shrew

7-loch

Loch Ronald

8-loch

 

9-horse

Another friend!

10-horse

 

11-horses-eye

 

12-greylags

Greylags on Loch Heron

13-horse

A handful of grass before we leave!