2023-01-01 Not doing much, a heron in the shallows of the Clyde
2023-01-02 along the pipe track, first sunshine of the year. 
2023-01-03 dead head, giant hogweed lit by the street lights
2023-01-04 quiet on Kilpatrick Braes, dirty clouds, drizzle. Everywhere the sound of water.
2023-01-05 rain, inside, had a walk through Flickr. 
2023-01-06 over the winter heather, a kestrel hangs in grey, dives and comes up with a bundle.
2023-01-07 morning, two cormorants over Crow Road tenements.
2023-01-08 scanning Lang Craigs, a raven slides through the pines. 
2023-01-09 bullfinches, rustling the beech hedge in the dawn playground.
2023-01-10 a huddle of oystercatchers in the gloom, wind & rain.
2023-01-11 squally rain, crows and jackdaws scatter.
2023-01-12 bullfinches at the school gates again. 
2023-01-13 pied wagtail hopping around the playground.
2023-01-14 a bunch of long tailed tits flit through bushes, trees and drizzle. 
2023-01-15 a park robin sings at our feet.
2023-01-16 clear sky fades in on the commute. A waning moon. What blues. 
2023-01-17 so many bullfinches waiting at the school gate.
2023-01-18 a rook, trails a wing across the playground, clumsy flight.
2023-01-19 frozen foam pancakes on the Black Linn, icicles. 
2023-01-20 bare trees witch along the dawn horizon. 
2023-01-21 first snowdrops, just and no more.
2023-01-21 Wood Pigeons in hospital ivy.
2023-01-22 a jay undulates over the Kelvin.
2023-01-23 from a speed boat, cormorants in the trees. 
2023-01-24 headlights in the mist.
2023-01-25 driving home clear sky, clouds banked on the horizons. Waxing moon. 
2023-01-26 Hazel catkins shining in the sun.
2023-01-27 sunrise, clouds, dirty red smoke. 
2023-01-29 the braes: bare trees, blue sky, buzzards mewing, some bullfinches and a raven. 
2023-01-30 Playground jackdaw collecting crusts. 
2023-01-31 on the way to the chip shop, freezing rain in my face. 
2023-02-01 kids, drawing winter branches, absorbed into silence. 
2023-02-02 a buzzard almost keeping up with my car. Not even flapping its wings
2023-02-03 set out the bird cam, just a few blurs.
2023-02-04 dusk clouds, sun highlighted, textured, layered.
2023-02-05 walking to the co-op: birds think it is spring.
2023-02-06 arrived at work in the light.
2023-02-07 electric starling buzzing in the trees.
2023-02-08 before dawn: blackbird song high above my head and the traffic.
2023-02-09 a run of bare trees and hedge remnants follow the skyline wave 
2023-02-10 after years on the same commute I see the ivy covered tree
2023-02-11 a goldeneye pointing it's beak skywards
2023-02-12 snow buntings in the clouds. An eagle from above
2023-02-13 A quiet Ardinning afternoon, widgeon sleep on still water, deer in the long grass
2023-02-14 Victoria Park pond, dabchick splashing & spruces itself. 
2023-02-15 2 eagles, just visible fade into the low cloud
2023-02-16 a rustle of sparrows in beech hedge
2023-02-17 Back to school playground, jackdaws, crows, starlings & a wagtail
2023-02-18 on the way to the co-op, goldfinches flash yellow on a feeder
2023-02-19 Ardinning, gossanders, mallard, tufted, golden eye & herons on the loch, ravens overhead.
2023-02-20 high on the after storm, crows enjoy the wind
2023-02-21 steady rain, low clouds, a roe grazes the slope beside the corner of the wood
2023-02-22 dawn, two roe silhouetted of the curve of a hill
2023-02-23 clear sky. The frost smooths the fields in the early sunlight. 
2023-02-24 geese flying by the road in the morning light. Road on a hill so the geese were alongside, above the low ground besides. 
2023-02-25 beside the tiny waterfall, First Primrose of 2023
2023-02-26 winter trees against a blue sky, one lark heard on the Muir
2023-02-27 river bend, two roe edging into the field at first light
2023-02-28 A woodpecker playing a couple of tunes. 
2023-03-01 on the privet a hedge sparrow sings
2023-03-02 Nothing noted
2023-03-03 Scanning the sunlit crocus for an early bee
2023-03-04 along the pipe track hazel catkins everywhere. 
2023-03-05 a squirrel skull, white in the green moss. 
2023-03-06 walking into school, a cock pheasant calls. 
2023-03-07 bright morning sun. Two pheasants square up. 
2023-03-08 Beautiful bright frosty morn. Low sun and frost throw flock of geese, two fields away into relief, 6 roe stand out grazing slopes. 
2023-03-09 classroom prep. Geese honks try to pull me outside.
2023-03-10 roadside, dead badger sprawled on its belly. 
2023-03-11 walking to the co-op for the paper, steady rain, few birds singing. 
2023-03-12 Winter flowering cherry
2023-03-13 rainy, a damp hare comes onto the road in front of a car, turns round and makes it back. 
2023-03-14 afternoon in the playground. Sunny day. 3 buzzards sparing, diving, floating and soaring. 
2023-03-15 a burst of geese rise over frozen fields.
2023-03-16 the Greenock lights bright, no reflection on a choppy sea. 
2023-03-17 Passing a field full of grazing geese, half a dozen pheasant pushed to the edge
2023-03-18 two dunnocks 
2023-03-19 nothing noted. Inside day. 
2023-03-20 First blackthorn flowering along the Balmore road
2023-03-21 nothing noticed
2023-03-22 brownfield in Kirkintilloch 5 roe in the tall weeds. 
2023-03-23 watching a couple of dunnocks outside the school door as I left. A gust of house sparrows blew by. 
2023-03-24 pussy willow catkins in the play ground, a huge bumble bee crossing. 
2023-03-25 heavy March rain. Magnolia blossoms. 
2023-03-26 two crows march across the roof, white bread in beaks.
2023-03-27 bright blue morning. Geese and their shadows crowd the field. 
2023-03-28 coming out of school, the drizzle nicely cool
2023-03-29 magnolia shining in the streetlight, half moon halos through the cloud
2023-03-30 sparrow beak full of dry grass, a moustache. 
2023-03-31 Nothing Noticed
2023-04-01 Purple Mountain Saxifrage. Around 2000ft on Ben Reoch
2023-04-02 Kilpatrick, first tortoiseshell butterfly feeding on primrose
2023-04-03 healthy looking dabchick on the pond. A few morning bees
2023-04-04 Ballagan, Ravens & crows, dogfighting. 
2023-04-05 a goldfinch in a blossom tree sings to mum & I
2023-04-06 Ardinning, swallows over the loch, colts-foot, blackthorn blossom
2023-04-07 the sound of the waves on the sand, Barassie Beach
2023-04-08 Three clear notes from a blackbird
2023-04-09 Victoria Park pond, a tufted duck stretches his neck and lifts his head
2023-04-10 Two oystercatchers, above the green waves at high tide.
2023-04-11 Glen Mollochan track, quite a few inside out frog skins in the puddles.
2023-04-12 stonechat flitting along the dyke. 2 roe fade into old heather. 
2023-04-13 Wood Anemones
2023-04-14 at the far side of the canal a fox, curled, sleeps in the sun. 
2023-04-15 quiet, watching dippers, grey wagtails & tree creepers, the Kelvin
2023-04-16 2 goldfinch on a key garden feeder
2023-04-17 Jacket-less evening, Broomhill blossom starting to froth, two ducklings on Bingham pond
2023-04-18 Hoping the gulls over the Clyde were gannets
2023-04-19 two adult swans bow-wave after a couple of youngsters, chasing them off the pond.
2023-04-20 Dows Wood, a willow warbler singing and woodpecker drumming as pupils sketched along the old railway track
2023-04-21 sunset, roofs and trees, lights up the few small clouds. 
2023-04-22 Slackdhu pipe track: blackbirds, thrushes, blue tit, great tit, long tailed tit, dunnock, wren, chaffinch, goldfinch, crow, pheasant & buzzard. Hill: pipets. 
2023-04-23 Goldfinch, beak full of grass stems beside me on a hedge. 
2023-04-24 nothing noticed
2023-04-25 front garden, abandoned. Forget-me-nots, dandelions & cuckoo flowers.
2023-04-26 touch of frost on the windscreen, later backlit by early sun, a roe crops cold grass.
2023-04-27 Main Street Helensburgh, ivy-leaved toadflax, perhaps, on the stone walls. 
2023-04-28 A blackbird sings as I leave school for the long weekend.
2023-04-29 a cold breeze, pink snow already, seemed the blossom is just out. Ardinning afternoon, first cuckoos of the year and first nuthatch of my life. 
2023-04-30 Nothing noticed 
2023-05-01 Meall an Fhudair, lots of cuckoo, heard & seen. Golden Plover on the top, Wheatear on the slopes. A handsome frog and a lizard.
2023-05-02 Beside the road, among the weeds and litter, a roe deer corpse bloats.
2023-05-03 Nothing noticed
2023-05-04 Leaving school, a bumble bee on the border heather
2023-05-05 leaving school, a pheasant call. Sparrows nesting in the eves. 
2023-05-06 Chestnut candles starting to light up
2023-05-07 Listening for bird song, 4:30 am, a fox barks 3 times
2023-05-08 walking to the coop in the rain, bird list: dunnock, sparrows, goldfinch, great tit, blackbird, magpie & wood pigeon
2023-05-09 car park after school several white butterflies flying around. 
2023-05-10 Windy in the back courts. First buddleia, last magnolia and towels all swaying.
2023-05-11 a lapwing tumbling over the road. 
2023-05-11 Gull chases a crow off the tenement roof. 
2023-05-12 coot preening in the sun on the edge of the pond
2023-05-13 along the Kelvin, lots of Orange Tips flying low, hardly pausing. 
2023-05-15 A single egg on the swans nest, no swans near by, Victoria Park pond.
2023-05-14 an Ardinning roe trots through the long grass 
2023-05-16 blackbird evening 
2023-05-17 nothing noticed
2023-05-18 starlings, feeding young, cross the playground 
2023-05-19 small fox, dead, stretched at the side of the road. 
2023-05-20 pipe track, bluebells and cuckoos
2023-05-21 along the canal, new bridge reflections
2023-05-22 by the park pond, a crow eating a roll, dips his beak into the water, softening the bread?
2023-05-23 a gull works the receding tide
2023-05-24 Sunny afternoon, from the bus over the hedge we can see wee rabbit grazing
2023-05-25 in the playground, kids playing chess, orange tip butterflies wandering past. 
2023-05-26 I put up a snipe higher up on the shoulder of Ben Oss. It flew round and round me up high, piping and thrumming.
2023-05-27 Barassie beach, 2 adults and 2 chick ringed plovers almost vanish in front of us
2023-05-28 The strangest sound, then 2 red squirrels chasing through the trees.
2023-05-29 Kilpatrick Braes, lots of butterflies today, but highlight was a red kite. Not seen here before.
2023-05-30 Helensburgh shore, warm dusk, high tide lapping the sea wall. 
2023-05-31 nothing noticed
2023-06-01 Dows wood, listening to the birds
2023-06-02 two foxgloves, in our weedy front garden, curve up. 
2023-06-03 Barassie, a cinnabar moth buzzes along beside like a spinning red ball. 
2023-06-04 Braeval, small pearl bordered fritillary on meadow crane's-bill
2023-06-05 Victoria Park. 2 minutes listening with app: willow warbler, blackbird, coot, greenfinch, chaffinch & wood pigeon. 
2023-06-06 watering the wild flower beds in the playground. 
2023-06-07 eating dinner, back court jackdaws chuck. 
2023-06-08 nothing noted
2023-06-09 Dow's wood, following the call to the top of a dead tree, a woodpecker 
2023-06-10 on the way to the co-op small bird singing quietly 
2023-06-11 on the pond, 3 tiny dabchicks being fed by their parents. We saw no sign of nest this year, well hid. 
2023-06-12 Welsh poppies in the bin lane
2023-06-13 in the afternoon heat a blackbird lies on its side beak up and open, reluctant to move. 
2023-06-14 through the trees crows mobbing a buzzard
2023-06-15 one dabchick feeding a youngster, another on a nest with a chick peeping out
2023-06-16 delicate, another dead roe at the Queenzieburn roadside
2023-06-17 Ardinning first orchid and ringlet of year for me
2023-06-18 walk at Loch Katrine lots of birds and butterflies. Lesser Redpolls fav of the day. 
2023-06-19 Hot day, after a heavy downpour, a blackbird at the top of a tree singing
2023-06-20 Firth of Clyde, watching the rain come down the river
2023-06-21 coming out of Allander Toll, a jay dips across the road
2023-06-22 Kirkintilloch pavement, young fox corpse looks perfect
2023-06-23 Swan still sitting in the nest at the park
2023-06-24 Kilpatrick, meadowsweet coming out, 8 ravens at the edge of the braes, bell and bog heather
2023-06-25 Ardinning, many ringlets, butterfly orchid beside the path
2023-06-26 Nothing noticed
2023-06-27 Evening, rain paused, wood pigeons loud in the street trees
2023-06-28 vet school by the Kelvin, following Meadow Brown butterflies 
2023-06-29 Glen Fruin, an afternoon of ravens and wild flowers
2023-06-30 first view of two cygnets in Victoria Park
2023-07-01 Pipetrack, watched a Golden Ringed Dragon fly, it lands on an upright reed that bends gracefully till the dragonfly is hanging vertical below its curve. 
2023-07-02 a pair of black throated divers and two chicks on jaw reservoir
2023-07-03 Ardinning, a jay crossed our path. Later on, near the entrance a reed bunting entertains. 
2023-07-04 Glen Douglas: a Dark Giant Horse Fly! Snipe thrumming, redpoll in the new trees.
2023-07-05 Goldfinch on an arial singing to the blue sky. 
2023-07-06 more goldfinches, feeding on thistles beside Jaw reservoir. 
2023-07-07 Troon Beach. Peak harebell in the dunes. A lone gannet patrolling and diving among the white horses.
2023-07-08 Swan with two cygnets out on the main pond
2023-07-09 Kestrel hovering in the wind
2023-07-10 rainy afternoon, blue & orange kingfisher over the brown Kelvin. 
2023-07-11 bell heather & blaeberries 
2023-07-12 watching black bees with red bottoms on birds foot trefoil 
2023-07-13 5:30 am below the window, a very thin fox trots along the middle pavement. Bedraggled tail. Head & ears up, alert. 
2023-07-14 A day of rain, nothing notice
2023-07-15 I now recognise goldfinch song, looking up to see two aerials toped by singing birds.
2023-07-16 No note
2023-07-17 3 woodpeckers dip through the trees and land on a dead one. 
2023-07-18 gulls swoop ignored by the deaf black lab. 
2023-07-19 two white butterflies twist and tumble around each other as they fly up the front of a tenement, four floors. 
2023-07-20 gannets & greenfinches on Barassie shore
2023-07-21 Butterflies, red admiral, tortoiseshell, meadow brown, ringlets and a couple I could not ID. 
2023-07-22 Enchanter's-Nightshade along the kelvin, what a name. 
2023-07-23 blue damselflies along the path. 
2023-07-24 Loch Ard, green all around. Water lilies white & yellow.
2023-07-25 Kilpatrick, the muir purple, buzzing with bees
2023-07-26 in the evening rain, I step over a snail crossing the pavement. 
2023-07-27 After a day indoors, in the pub basement a goldfinch on the wallpaper
2023-07-28 Glen Douglas. So much seen, deer, eagles and wee flowers
2023-07-29 Kilpatrick first field, a wee fox comes out of the long grass, takes a look at us and disappears into the undergrowth
2023-07-30 a fledgling magpie capers around the ice cream shop
2023-07-31 No note
2023-08-01 palace rooftop, ragwort sprouts and a wagtail.
2023-08-02 out on the firth a couple of gannets slant into the water
2023-08-03 among today's snaps, a linnet, not the large dark blue dragonfly. 
2023-08-04 on the moor picked up a birthday balloon and found a punk caterpillar 
2023-08-05 over the traffic, a sparrow hawk pauses, then into the tree tops. 
2023-08-06 groups of mallards scattered over the cloud reflections. 
2023-08-07 along the pipe track, lots of pineapple plants. 
2023-08-09 Ardmore, a sea trout jumped clear, gannets above... 
2023-08-09 Greenside path, a fox in the long grass, plenty of butterflies, thistles & rose-bay seeding in clouds. 
2023-08-10 Troisgeach, cloud right down, plenty of Scotch Argus & Frogs, couple of eagles!
2023-08-11 Cochno Hills, fresh breeze, sunshine & cumulus. 
2023-08-12 Pitttenweem watching the butterfly in between paintings.
2023-08-13 Nothing noticed
2023-08-14 the sound of sparrows in the hedge
2023-08-15 young rabbit in the school front garden
2023-08-16 three sparrows sit on the car park fence, looking interested. 
2023-08-17 watching jackdaws with the class from the window. 
2023-08-18 nothing noticed
2023-08-19 the Merlin app lets us know we are surrounded by siskins, none in sight. 
2023-08-20 a baby mouse spinning helpless on the road
2023-08-21 leaving school ripening apples catch my eye
2023-08-22 the high tide pushes the oystercatchers onto the lawn
2023-08-23 corvids and pigeons winnowing among the round bales. 
2023-08-24 out to look for a red moon, below the rooftops I think. Dim stars as the rain clouds cleared. 
2023-08-25 starlings feeding in the playground today. 
2023-08-26 Bright & warm in the park, feels like the last of summer. Rain later
2023-08-27 a sparrow hawk through low trees, over the path then up and away across the hill
2023-08-28 nothing noted.
2023-08-29 driving home large blue moon (slightly red) between the trees ahead, clouds occasionally drift across. 
2023-08-30 
2023-08-31 A roe up to its neck in barley
2023-09-01 I stop for a thin nervous fox standing before the traffic lights. After a minute it returns to the garden and peers from the side of the hedge. 
2023-09-02 in the park, sunny and warm, a white butterfly among the skeletons of Angelica. 
2023-09-03 blackbird in the Rowan outside the close, long-tailed tits in a bush near the co-op, app tells me blue & great tits calling too. 
2023-09-04 warm sunny afternoon, pigeons over new cut barley. 
2023-09-05 young rabbit in the playground has grown a bit
2023-09-06 nothing noticed.
2023-09-07 in the car park on a sunny afternoon watching huge dragonfly hoping it will come close. 
2023-09-08 warm thick mist this morning 
2023-09-09 Red Admiral on beech leaves by the train station. 10pm fox in the bin lane
2023-09-10 Ardinning, a roe in the centre, quiet, feeding and scratching. The burn full of foam.
2023-09-11 no note
2023-09-12 red golden dawn, cirrocumulus clouds, low mist on some fields, wood pigeon adjusting it's flight over the car. Later above the playground a v of geese in a blue sky.
2023-09-13 feels like autumn colder, some beech yellowing
2023-09-14 Helensburgh shore, gulls, oystercatchers, a heron and a redshank as the tide comes in
2023-09-15 driving to work, geese moving overhead
2023-09-16 path to Greenside, Red Admirals & peacocks, a few dragonflies.
2023-09-17 rain, indoors.
2023-09-18 starlings in the morning electric sounds.
2023-09-19 dark rainy morning. Flood rough ground beside road full of mallard 
2023-09-20 strong winds and rain. A Robin on the branch top singing.
2023-09-21 going to the park, in the lane behind nice houses I nearly step on a rat. 
2023-09-22 Common Carder Bee (I think) on Mexican aster.
2023-09-23 from the bridge two kingfishers shine over the spate.
2023-09-24 a greenfinch dashing from bush to bush across the path.
2023-09-25 young moorhens search the grass.
2023-09-26 the sea on the shore calm, limpid what a sound.
2023-09-27 driving to work, bright, low light, ground soaking, low mist rising. behind the hedge trees. A slim kestrel over barley stubble. Later a roe legs spread grazing. Then sun through the mist. 
2023-09-28 late afternoon 4 roe spread across the barley stubble.
2023-09-29 The tail of storm Agnes, playground willows ripple & flow.
2023-09-30 the urge to pick up a conker just for the smooth.
2023-10-01 Warm autumn Ardinning, still butterflies & dragonflies about.
2023-10-02 two buzzards turn I've the road. I slow the traffic. 
2023-10-03 late afternoon sun on turning cherry leaves. 
2023-10-04 nothing noted
2023-10-05 on an ash: crows, jackdaws and rooks hunch in the rain. 
2023-10-06 fox corpse in the middle road, perfect. 
2023-10-07 rain, rain & rain. 
2023-10-08 after the rain the pond clear. Two dabchicks fish for sticklebacks. 
2023-10-09 flooded fields heron stalk. Gulls and duck roosting.
2023-10-10 nothing noted
2023-10-11 a waning moon and morning star over the train station. Later a late red admiral suns at the classroom door.
2023-10-12 beside the road, fox and cubs, purple clover both still in flower, lots of different leaves. An old post covered in moss & pixie cups.
2023-10-13 nothing noted
2023-10-14 A blue sky and cold wind this morning, seasons change
2023-10-15 About 8am. Frost on the car tops
2023-10-16 redwings in the hawthorn. 
2023-10-17 perhaps a green woodpecker at the edge of the Braes. Bigger than a thrush bright yellow & green back. Seen briefly from above. 
2023-10-18 another perhaps, from the bus in Buchanan St. station, was that a peregrine?
2023-10-19 Yellow, orange & gold leave blowen up to the close door.
2023-10-20 Storm Babet, a whirl of leaves at the junction.
2023-10-21 beginning to see real bright autumn trees now.
2023-10-22 autumn colours at Loch Katrine.
2023-10-23 frost on windscreen.
2023-10-24 Buzzard silhouetted on a round bale.
2023-10-25 clear morning sky, the few stars - nostalgia.
2023-10-26 electric starlings buzz in an autumn ash, half the leaves gone. 
2023-10-27 Balloch roundabout autumn turned trees
2023-10-28 A coal tit in a garden on the way back from shops
2023-10-29 park in the rain reflection blurred by raindrops
2023-10-30 fields flooded again 
2023-10-31 ducks and geese on the field ponds
2023-11-01 clumps of geese moving this morning 
2023-11-02 Driving rain on the home commute
2023-11-03 A rook pulling the bird feeder up to get at a fat ball
2023-11-04 not well. Only out to co-op. Robins singing. 
2023-11-05 no notes
2023-11-06 late afternoon 7 or 8 roe in the stubble
2023-11-07 starlings on the feeder, flashing. 
2023-11-08 no notes
2023-11-09 some days a robin singing in an apple tree is enough 
2023-11-10 fog all day. Late afternoon sun slanting silver through the trees. Even later, cleared and woods lit with gold. 
2023-11-11 clear blue, brightest autumn colours yet. 
2023-11-12 Victoria pond mostly ice
2023-11-13 Queenzie Burn in spate. Almost white. 
2023-11-14 dark rainy commutes. Witch trees lean together along the hedge. Already bare. 
2023-11-15 left in the dark home in the dark. Nothing noted. 
2023-11-16 Another dark day. There seems to be one coal tit around the sparrows on the school feeders. 
2023-11-17 the playground a wagtail skirts the jackdaws and starlings
2023-11-18 raining all day, not many leaves left, a few pale mushrooms on the roadside grass. To dull to get a good look. 
2023-11-19 nothing noted
2023-11-20 driving home the late afternoon sun combing though pearly clouds beautiful reds and pinks with golden leaks of light. 
2023-11-21 a coal tit among the sparrows out numbered but persistence 
2023-11-22 trees along missing hedges stand clear against the sky. Bare now. 
2023-11-23 no note
2023-11-24 a fox crosses the road in front of me. Taking its time. I brake quite hard. 
2023-11-25 still, clear & frost only made the park. Bare trees flow into the sky. 
2023-11-26 two swans fly over the playground
2023-11-27 leaving home a full moon low, leaving school full moon low.
2023-11-28 beyond the clicks and buzz of starlings a pheasant calls. 
2023-11-29 In the middle of the road a injured roe, legs tucked, ears up
2023-11-30 the kids find a dead rat in the playground, glossy coat, plump. A couple of deep wounds. 
2023-12-01 sparrows chatter as the tabby slinks along the hedge. 
2023-12-02 Ardinning, a couple of inches of snow. Beautiful. 
2023-12-03 coots and moorhen look odd running over the ice, long legs usually under the surface. 
2023-12-04 no note
2023-12-05 Half moon already, high in the sky before dawn
2023-12-06 a day of mist and frost. Jackdaws drinking from water we put out in the playground. 
2023-12-07 after playtime, the children come in, the jackdaws descend
2023-12-08 Dusk, pouring. A cock pheasant in the middle of a field. 
2023-12-09 dark and rainy
2023-12-10 dark and rainy
2023-12-11 Homeward in the rain, a cormorant high above the car, later on a damp buzzard. 
2023-12-12 leaving home, dark & pouring. Magpies still chatter. 
2023-12-13 before dawn, duelling robins
2023-12-14 early dusk, three dark roe glimpsed through a hedge up deep in long dead grass. 
2023-12-15 no note.
2023-12-16 blustery, jackdaws excited by tenement updrafts.
2023-12-17 no note
2023-12-18 arrived at school pitch black pouring, still robins sing 
2023-12-19 no note
2023-12-20 four swans fly over the hill. 
2023-12-21 driving home early, fading light and a mackerel sky. 
2023-12-22 End of term, early finish, after the kids are gone two collard doves search the playground grass.
2023-12-23 Kelvin in spate, Hazel catkins, Cormorant going downstream fast, Parakeets calling. 
2023-12-24 across the graffiti the wind whips old Buddleia flowers. 
2023-12-25 grey sea and sky, wind and rain. A wader moves along the tide edge. 
2023-12-26 2 redwings in the rowan outside our close. A woodcock at Ardinning.
2023-12-27 A blackbird rooting in the pavement leaf pile
2023-12-28 magpies slipping and sliding on fossil grove roof. 
2023-12-29 Ardinning 2 ravens fly across croaking each other all the way
2023-12-30 snow, bird prints at the bins
2023-12-31 Jaw Reservoir, a dipper along the edge