More Wind & Rain and a Climate Change Conference!

This weather is starting to get really annoying! Not much birding since the last post but I have helped the Friends of Glasgow's LNRs with their nest box work and managed a few sightings of note.

We started at Hogganfield Park LNR and enjoyed a mixture of sleety showers, wind and some sunshine! All of the nest boxes were cleaned out and two more boxes erected

Spot Box no. 8

It was nice to see a clump or two of primroses....

….whilst a pair of Canada Geese and an Oystercatcher took advantage of the 'biohavens'...

From Hogganfield Park LNR we moved to Bingham's Pond where two boxes were cleaned and a new one erected....

On Tuesday, I attended  a conference at the SEC on Sustainability & Climate Change and it proved that some people do care

I eventually managed some 'proper' birding at Bingham's Pond yesterday, for just one hour, and recorded a respectable 22 species.

Others have managed out, despite the weather, with some recent sightings in Greater Glasgow, courtesy of the SOC Clyde Grapevine, including: 

Two Yellow-legged Gulls (an adult and sub-adult) and a  3^rd-winter Iceland Gull at the Balgray Reservoir gull roost. 

There have also been some reports of Blackcaps - a female in a Bearsden garden and also at the feeders in Holyrood Crescent Pleasure Gardens, Kelvinbridge; with a male in an Ormonde Drive, Netherlee garden.