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First survey of the summer | The Brucehill Cliffs
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Brucehill Estate, West Dunbartonshire, UK. May 25, 2012. First survey of the summer. This picture sums up my feelings for the Brucehill Cliffs. A beautiful grassland, vandalised by the locals. Today, I conducted my first butterfly survey of the year. I caught some Green-veined Whites, Orange-tips and Peacocks. In addition, I spotted what I believe to be Common Carder Bees, many Wood Pigeons and Blackbirds. There was much more out there, but my surveying skills are pretty rusty! May 25, 2012 - 4:00 pm.
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When the Crow calls, you listen | The Brucehill Cliffs
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Brucehill Estate, West Dunbartonshire, UK. January 31, 2012. When the Crow calls, you listen. I have not been keeping well as of late, so yesterday I made a trip to the Brucehill Cliffs to recharge my batteries. View over the Brucehill Cliff, towards the grassland below. A close-up of the Cliff's face, with new growth visible. In a few months time, this area will be full of sunbathing Peacock Butterflies. Although it was a beautiful day, Winter is still here and will be for some time yet. You are comment...
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Common Hogweed | The Brucehill Cliffs
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Brucehill Estate, West Dunbartonshire, UK. July 16, 2012. The Common Hogweed (. Is a member of the carrot and parsley family and grows readily at the Brucehill Cliffs. Their flowers bloom in an umbrella-like structure, and the plant can reach a height of two meters. Common Hogweed on Wikipedia. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out.
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Species List | The Brucehill Cliffs
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Brucehill Estate, West Dunbartonshire, UK. Curlew Grey Heron Herring Gull Kestrel Lapwing. Oystercatcher Red Shank Snipe Starling Swallow Wood Pigeon. Invertebrates – Butterflies and Moths. Green-veined White Meadow Brown Orange-tip Peacock Ringlet Small Tortoiseshell. Invertebrates – Other Insects. Common Carder Bee Hoverfly (Syrphus). Hedgehog Rabbit Red Fox Stoat. Cleavers / ‘Sticky Willy’. Plants – Trees. Saving butterflies, moths and our environment. Grey squirrels need protection.
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Scottish Wildlife Blog: July 2010
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Thursday, 29 July 2010. Pappert Hill, West Dunbartonshire. I was invited to join West Dunbartonshire's Over 50s Walking Group on a walk over Pappert Hill to Pappert Well - the site of a natural freshwater spring. Although the morning had been rainy, by the time we picked everyone up and assembled at the back of Bonhill, it had fairly brightened up. Grass of Parnassus (. Grass of Parnassus (. The Anatomy of a Grass of Parnassus:. Delicate transparent veins ( nectar guides. Is still disputed, as they displ...
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Scottish Wildlife Blog: February 2011
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Saturday, 19 February 2011. Kilpatrick Hills, West Dunbartonshire. I went to the disused curling pond below the Mohican Woods to look for mating Common Frogs (. I normally miss them due to the miserable February weather. Ferns in the Mohican Woods. No frogs at the curling pond, but I did find a large clump of frogspawn. Yellow Brain fungus (. Yellow Brain fungus (. Was growing profusely on bare Gorse branches near Little Round Top Wood. This fungus is an obligate parasite on other fungi (. All photos on ...
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Scottish Wildlife Blog: April 2010
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Wednesday, 21 April 2010. Kilpatrick Hills, West Dunbartonshire. The aim of today's walk was to look for the elusive Emperor moth (. The only member of the impressive Saturniidae family which is native to the UK. The nocturnal females are difficult to find when resting in the heather. The males, on the other hand, are diurnal with a very characteristic erratic flight pattern. They are difficult to approach: they have no need to feed and therefore, no need to land! Saw my first Swallows (. As we crossed t...
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Scottish Wildlife Blog: May 2010
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Tuesday, 25 May 2010. Tinto Hill, South Lanarkshire - SSSI. Tinto Hill (707 metres), is an outlying peak of the Southern Uplands and is a designated SSSI (Site of Special Scientific Interest) due to the presence of subalpine heath and Quaternary geology. In terms of geology, Tinto Hill is a good example of active periglacial stone stripes (freeze/thaw sorting of stones: resembling a ploughed field) and is composed of volcanic felsite and Old Red Sandstone. With Bilberry flower (. The view from the top of...
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Scottish Wildlife Blog: March 2011
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Sunday, 20 March 2011. Mugdock Country Park and Kilpatrick Hills, East and West Dunbartonshire. I'm not usually a twitcher, but repeated sightings of a Great Grey Shrike at Craigallian Loch over the last few weeks proved too much to resist! My dad and I caught a train from Dalmuir to Milngavie, walked through Mugdock Country Park to Craigallian Loch and then walked back to Duntocher (via Burncrooks Reservoir, Duncolm and the Greenside). Disappointingly, the shrike never made an appearance. Today I walked...