Hogganfield Park LNR - Volunteering and Birding

I helped out at the Friends of Glasgow's LNRs wildfowl feeding event on Sunday (28th).

It was a beautiful day, lots of people were in the park and the birds very appreciative of the 'duck and swan floating food'.

The wildfowl were showing really well and included 21 Whooper Swans .............

Family of Whooper Swans and Tufted Ducks

 Other wildfowl included Pochard, Goldeneye, Gadwall and Goosander.

Pochard

 

Gadwall

 

Goldeneye

 

Goosander

 

A pair of Buzzard displaying added to the spectacle. Once again, I have to ask if you have never visited this wonderful Reserve, why not?

 

Finally, a review of some of the recent sightings in the Greater Glasgow area, courtesy of the SOC Clyde Grapevine:

 

Monday 29 February 2016
A male Blackcap again on feeders in a Hillfoot Drive, Bearsden garden.

Sunday 28 February 2016
The drake Green-winged Teal still at Townhead Reservoir (Banton Loch).
An adult Mediterranean Gull at the Dalmuir sewage works outflow.
11 Jack Snipe at Cathkin Marsh SWT Reserve, and nearby 6 Jack Snipe and 4 Water Rails at Windlaw Marsh, Cathkin Braes Country Park, Glasgow.
A male Blackcap and a male Brambling still in Ailsa Drive, Giffnock.
A male Blackcap still in Hillfoot Drive, Bearsden.

Saturday 27 February 2016
An adult Iceland Gull at London Road, Mount Vernon, and a 1st-winter Iceland Gull in the roost at Five Pintail, three Shelduck, nine Shoveler and a Merlin at Bridgend Farm Pool.
A pair of Nuthatches, male in song, in vicinity of the Woodland Garden, Pollok Country Park.
A male Blackcap and a male Brambling in an Ailsa Drive, Giffnock garden.
A male Blackcap and two Stock Doves in a Hillfoot Drive, Bearsden garden.
A female Blackcap in a Hillview Drive, Clarkston garden.
A drake Red-breasted Merganser on Townhead Reservoir (Banton Loch).
Three Stonechats at Cathkin Marsh SWT Reserve, and a Woodcock in adjacent woods.