Bingham's Pond Video

Following on from yesterday's post; I've now edited some video footage taken at Bingham's Pond featuring Tufted Duck families. It can be found, along with other videos, at

https://plus.google.com/photos/104713764515112558251/albums/5897080648992392417

Click on the thumbnail  'Bingham's Pond It's a Family Affair' and the video should play.

It can also be found on YouTube at http://youtu.be/KPgZf8AlDSk

Incidentally, the noise in the background is the traffic along Great Western Road - the pond really is a green oasis in the west end!

Beautiful Bingham's Pond

Yesterday (19 July 2013) I paid another one of my regular visits to Bingham's Pond. People were basking in the sunshine, feeding the 'ducks', sitting in the shade and admiring the colourful range of plants to be seen...........................

Bingham's Pond - 19 July 2013

 

In parts of the Pond, as illustrated above, the prominent plant is Yellow Flag Iris. However, whilst it is no longer in flower, lots of other plants were, including Purple Loosestrife.........

 

 

..............Water Forgetmenot.............................................

 

...and Great Willowherb....................................

 

There were also good numbers of 'white' butterflies and 'blue' damselflies present. I didn't have my binoculars with me and they never stayed still long enough for me to photograph and identify them!

 

The birds were more accommodating with much evidence of breeding..............

 

Female Mallard and duckling

 

....................with Tufted Duck apparently having had a reasonable year with at least 20 duckling and brood sizes ranging from one.......................

 

 

...............to six............................................

 

 

 

The last word goes to this little poser........................

 

 

 

Videos - upgraded quality?

Having looked at the videos that I downloaded onto YouTube, it is clear that the quality is not very good. I have therefore loaded the following videos, all filmed in Glasgow, onto picasa.

1. Goldeneye - the prequel
2. Goldeneye
3. The Colour Purple (and black and white)
4. (Not) The Deerhunter
5. Murder Most Fowl?
They can be accessed via the following link. Hopefully, the resolution/picture quality is a bit better.

https://picasaweb.google.com/104713764515112558251/VideosInGlasgow?authuser=0&feat=directlink

Double click on each 'icon' and the video should play OK!

The Colour Purple - my latest movie!

Following on from 'Goldeneye - the prequel', I have posted another 'movie' on YouTube entitled 'The Colour Purple' see the following link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJpAt5WR48E

It was filmed on location at Bingham's Pond in Glasgow and features a handsome leading male.

Other movies in the pipeline include 'Murder Most Fowl' and 'Not the Deerhunter'.

Normal service will be resumed in the near future!

Frozen Bingham's & Waxwings

This morning I popped down to Bingham's Pond to see how the cold weather was affecting the local wildfowl. As expected, part of the pond was frozen......................................

A partially frozen pond with 3 Goosander in the foreground

 

Despite the icy conditions, there were a good range of species to be seen:

1 Mute Swan (we await news of it's mate at the rescue centre), 32 Mallard, 25 Tufted Duck, 8 Goosander, 4 Coot, 23 Moorhen, 130 Black-headed Gulls, 3 Common Gull and 12 Herring Gull. The hybrid duck and 3 domestic/cayuga duck were also still present.

Other birds included 1 Pied Wagtail, 2 Blackbird, 1 Robin and 2 Blue Tit.

 

Mute Swan

Six of the 25 Tufted Duck

Common Gull with 2 Black-headed Gulls in the foreground

 

Having left the Pond, I decided to check out Shelley Road, an area that has been good for Waxwings in the past, although none had, as yet, turned up this year. I am pleased to say I found at least 40! As you can tell from the Bingham's photos the light was not great this morning but I managed a few record shots, one of which follows..................................