On way home from work I stopped off at Bingham's Pond, it used to be a concrete edged boating pond but a pond naturalisation project was carried out in 2003 and has transformed the pond in to a mini nature reserve. There were at least 42 Tufted Duck ducklings, the highest concentration I have ever seen localy for this species. They were made up by at least 8 broods (difficult to tell as the ducklings seem to merge in to groups making the actual number of broods impossible to work out). They are...

When I picked my 5 year old daughter up from her mums in Blantyre I took her to the local community woodland. She loves butterflies so we went looking, we saw Large White, Meadow Brown, Ringlet, Common Blue and a 5-spot Burnet as well as several Emerald Damselflies and many grasshoppers. It's great to see her so enthusiastic about wildlife, we also watched Swift, Swallow and House Martins feeding over the woodland and a Buzzard soaring high above us

It was a good walk now trying to...

I have just found out a good birding friend of mine died suddenly at home today, Jim Wilson along with his wife Val were the assistant Clyde Bird Recorders and devoted a lot of their time to editing and collating records for the Clyde Bird Report as well as organising the local WeBS and Breeding Wetlands Bird Surveys, Jim was a great character and will be sadly missed, my heart goes out to Val as they were a very close couple

Hogganfield Loch
Went for a walk around Hogganfield Loch and east marsh, the moulting Greylag flock were busy feeding away on the grass next to the loch, also Mute Swan (including brood of 2 and brood of 4), Mallard, tufted Duck, Pochard, Coot, Moorhen, Great Crested and Little Grebes on the loch, three pairs of Great Crested Grebes are incubating and there are no young visible on the loch, looks as if early breeding attempts have failed. Lesser Black-backed Gull numbers have reached around...

Had a good walk around the pond at Kelvingrove Park this morning, the drake Mallards are in various stages of moult (will post some images later, I'm at work )
A Squirrel was sitting eating what looked like a kebab with a Magpie and occasional Mallard and Moorhen trying to steal a bite of it, very comical to watch.

After arriving at work had a phone call to tell me that one of the Tornado's from RAF Leuchars had crashed so am now waiting to find out if anyone I know was...