Christine's walking & birds blog

The old road is partially uncovered at the northern end of Loch Glascarnoch, and I walked down it to the water's edge to see if any waders were feeding on the exposed mud. Common sandpiper and ringed plover were present, plus at least three dunlin.

Seven Canada geese - unusual here in the summer months, I think - went sailing out from the shore into the middle of the loch. A willow warbler was singing from trees near the road.

At the southern end of the loch, a narrow-bordered bee hawk-moth was nectaring on birdsfoot trefoil (spellcheck doesn't like the apostrophe between bird and s, and neither do I, although strictly speaking it's correct).

House martins swooped low around me as I walked across the dam; these were my first house martins of the year.