2025-01-01 Rainy morning. There was a very black and shiny crow making a lot of noise on a neighbours washing line when I dumped the rubbish this morning. Round the front the traffic is sparse. Across the street, in a pollard, a blue tit is calling.
2025-01-02 Clear blue skies and frost. High tide, at the end of a small rocky outcrop a heron hunches away from the sea and cold. A starling perched high by drain hole under the eaves making experimental sounds. 
2025-01-03 Sparking hill day, snow. A lot of deer. Deer seem less inclined to run off in the winter. Fox track all over. A glimpse of an eagle, later watched for 10-15 minutes as it circled back and forth along the skyline above. 
2025-01-04 Along Troon shore, stared rainy and cold, got a little warmer and changed to dull. Lots of dog walkers, but I saw quite a few birds, greenfinch, stonechat & linnets on the dune side, turnstone, sanderling and redshank at the edge of the sea. Took blurry photos of them all. Good enough for id & iNaturalist.  Also a small dead porpoise washed up on the sand. 
2025-01-05 a day inside. A dunnock sang from the hedge on the way to the co-op
2025-01-06 Back to work this morning. Well before dawn a song thrush sings a simple song in the dark street.
2025-01-07 didn't see the light of day, came out of school to clear skies a quarter moon and a bright Jupiter, I need to check an app for that. 
2025-01-08 3pm dusk in the playground as small group of starlings had a mini murmuration in a clear, frosty blue sky.
2025-01-09  driving home into an amazing sky.
2025-01-10 -8 when I arrived at school this morning. lots of "frost fattened" sparrows in the playground puffed up against the cold. 
2025-01-11 Kilpatrick's , Loch Humphrey & The Slacks frosty with mist filling the Clyde. Not much life other than runners around today. Coming down past the covered reservoir a brown hare ran across the rough ground. Ginger looking against the frost. First hare I remember seeing here. Later a bright green patch of watercress stand out.
2025-01-12 Greenside, still quite frosty, not much moving. Reservoir a bit frozen, reflective ice. 
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2025-01-15 warm day, bees coming out of the hive at midday. Doubt they would have much luck finding food. 30 or so geese clamouring above the playground. Coming out of school clear sky & sunset. Starlings glowing red flying into the conifer. 
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2025-01-19  Walk to Greenside, overcast & slightly colder than it has been. A few wee birds out. Ravens croaking and a couple twisting along together. Buzzard posing on lamp post and then fence post beside the car.
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2025-01-24 Storm. Day inside not much sign of life out of the window. 
2025-01-25  One large and a smaller tree down on the way to the coop. Heavy flurry of snow large wet flakes. 
2025-01-26 on the Greenside track. A few trees large and small down. Dusting of snow freezing a bit. Not much fauna. A buzzard working up and down the burn. A meeting of ravens. 
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2025-01-28 the class stops to listen to geese overhead. 
2025-01-29 jackdaws and street pigeons in a bright blue sky. Crowds of sparrows in the hedge. 
2025-01-30 clear dawn gradient sky. A heron comes down into the trees, a twisted silhouette. 
2025-01-31 late afternoon stubble covered with geese. 
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2025-02-02  Ardinning, drizzle and misty. Goosander, golden eye, tufted duck, 3 teal and the odd mallard. 
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2025-02-04 so much rain lots of flooded fields. Rivers of snow drops through the woods. 
2025-02-05 At Dow's wood with class. One spots some ice hair. 
2025-02-06 robin singing out against a bright blue late afternoon sky. 
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2025-02-08 Kilpatrick muir, 2 pairs of grouse on the heather. A couple of ravens flying with full beaks & purpose. 
2025-02-09 Greenside, cold & quiet. Some geese changing fields.
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2025-02-11 After the kids are gone a cock pheasant picks its way across the playground
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2025-02-14 lots of geese around over my morning commute. A couple of mallard pitching into the reeds needed the road home. 
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2025-02-17 Victoria Park for the first time in a while. Quite a lot of fallen trees from the storm. Big and small. 
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2025-02-21 warm rainy morning. Blackbirds and robins singing in the dark. 
2025-02-22 Warm sunny, for February, day. River running brown and high. I spent a few minutes sitting, watching a kingfisher across the river. Dived a few times and came up lucky a couple. One wee fish took a bit of subduing and was bashed off a branch a few times.
2025-02-23 another fisher, a dabchick, on a quiet stretch of pond, dives for sticklebacks, coming up again and again with sliver in its beak. 
2025-02-24  I had to jam on the brakes, a pheasant crossing the road, it was not it a big hurry.
2025-02-25 Three roe, legs spread wide, crop rough grass in a damp dawn.
2025-02-26 A excitement of geese, groups or various sizes cross the roads and fields, a huge flock filling one field, almost bubbling.
2025-02-27 Sunny day. A tree bumble bee bumbling around the car park croci 
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2025-03-01 metrological spring; a storm toppled tree still blossoms; the first frog spawn in the small pond; feels like there might be frost tonight.   
2025-03-05 buzzard on a fence post
2025-03-06 3 roe in the brownfield, Kirkintilloch 
2025-03-07 a roe tail slipping into the mist and tall grass. Roadkill maybe a badger. 
2025-03-08 Slackdhu, bright, sunny & warm. Lots of birds song lower down in the trees, blue, coal & great tits, dunnocks and more. A dead dear near the pipe track. On the hill, larks singing and chasing each other.
2025-03-09 The Pipetrack, Merlin identified a nuthatch call, & we caught a glimpse of a couple flitting through the trees. Coltfoot flowering.
2025-03-12 in the fields on the way home, roe deer in new barley, geese on rough grass. Seagulls and a pheasant on new ploughed furrows. 
2025-03-13 bright morning, geese, golden in the dawn sun, feeding on a frosty field. 
2025-03-14 dark buzzard on a fence post in the middle of long pale grass stalks. 
2025-03-15 Greenside, bright warm March morning. Lots of wee birds, robins, chaffinch, goldfinches, blue, great and long tailed tits, blackbirds and thrush, reed bunting and a stonechat. 
2025-03-16 Ardinning morning, some goldeneye and teal on the loch as well as mallard, tufted and a couple of Canada geese. A raven's croak made me look up. Very high, a buzzard hovered. Even higher, a raven circled. After a moment or two, the buzzard dropped quickly down, and the raven sailed off.
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2025-03-18 2 wood pigeons sunning themselves in a cherry tree. On the highest branch the first blossom. 
2025-03-19 light frost, hazy pastel pink & blue morning
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2025-03-22 A couple of magpies building a nest. One has a long thin curved twig in beak. As it goes up from branch to branch the end of the twig hooks rounds each branch in turn. Each time it tug the twig free and hops to the next branch and entanglement. Finally flys to the top of a neighbouring tree and then flies to the nest from above. 
2025-03-23 along the canal blackthorn blossoms 
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2025-03-25 tail back on the commute this morning. Slow along the blackthorn. Silver lining. 
2025-03-26 A couple of coal tits flitting  and calling
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2025-03-28 Roadkill badger. I've seen more dead than alive. Two this week. 
2025-03-29 Wet squally Saturday. Victoria park almost empty. A few birds calling. A blackbird shelters under cut twigs from a fallen tree. 
2025-03-30 Ardmore bright and warm. Step off the path into young trees and gorse. Bird song, greenfinch, chaffinch, goldfinch, chiffchaff, blackbirds, robins, song thrush & wood pigeons. 
2025-03-31 geese and their shadows in early morning fields
2025-04-01 first lambs, warmest day yet. 
2025-04-02 jackdaws in the street tearing tissues. Nesting time?
2025-04-03 kids bug hunting in school. Two butterflies, the first of the year. A peacock and a small tortoiseshell. 
2025-04-04 out of the corner of my eye a peewit dips its beak. 
2025-04-05 Milngavie to home via the Kelvin. Blue sky, sunshine & a cool breeze. Lesser celandine, wood anemones & lots of few-flowered leek. The blackthorn well out, some willow catkins.  
A few peacock butterflies & a green veined white. A glimpse of a kingfisher on the Allander water. Bit of bird song, chiffchaffs, blue & great tits, goldfinches & more. A couple of peewit in the distance. 
2025-04-06 Barassie, a few peacocks, two circling and rising quite high before dramatic drops. Some sand martins I think. Very blue sky.
2025-04-07 Greenside, warn and clear. Lots of birdsong, goldfinches, lots of chiffchaff. Stonechat, wrens, tits, and more. Butterflies, peacocks, Small Tortoiseshell & orange tips. Primroses are out.
2025-04-08 Walking round the loop above Finlas Water. Another blue sky day. Tops still brown but pretty dry. Deer and skylarks around most of the day, a few ravens. Some bumble bees looking for nests. Some green veined whites flying between the reservoir  & the car. 
2025-04-09 Out to Duncolm & Fynloch hill with C. Blackthorn well out, primroses & violets. Larks & ravens on the moor plenty of wee birds singing. Heard a nuthatch while on the metal road. Peacocks & a few Orange tip butterflies.
2025-04-10 Round Gartnavel, A fox on the railway line, lots of goldfinch singing. A heron in the reeds on Bingham pond and a bullfinch near the station on the way back. 
2025-04-11 Glen Douglas trio. Hills very dry. Mostly dead grass. Very quiet. A few flowers, wood anemone , louse wort, lesser celandine. Most on the south slope of Ben Reoch and among the tree planting at the bottom of Tullich hill.  Larks, pipets & ravens on the hill. Only 3 deer, stags with newish antlers. Some nice new sundew and a wheatear by the road.
2025-04-12 Ardinning a few bluebells out, lots of Wood anemones. A few orange tips.
2025-04-13 the Kelvin, watching a kingfisher, quite high in a conifer. 
2025-04-14 dabchick in the middle of the pond. Lots of singing around fossil grove, according to Merlin.app: Goldcrest, Robin, Blue Tit, Chiffchaff, Goldfinch & Wren
2025-04-15 Greenside, lots of birdsong, mostly goldfinch, chiffchaff & willow warblers; Reed bunting by the water. Butterflies: peacock, green veined white & orange tip. FIRST CUCKOO of the year.
2025-04-16 ran inside day
2025-04-17 Ardmore, lots of singing. First swallow. 
2025-04-18 Meall an Fhudair, started bright, drizzle later. Cool breeze. The  higher munroes had some snow. A few Cuckoos. Saw Greenshank and Golden Plover on the higher ground. Some frogs spawning in a pool in a wee burn, not on the hill pools yet. Still little growth of heather or grass. Very few flowers. primrose lower down. Some violets, wood anemones and Purple Mountain Saxifrage.
2025-04-19 Inside day
2025-04-20 On the path to Greenside Reservoir. Lots of butterfly around. Orange Tips, Green Veined Whites, Peacocks, Small tortoise shell & Comma. Plenty of willow warblers & chiffchaffs, Wheatear beside reservoir.   Cuckoos calling. Stonechat. Also a weasel just to the side of the path, on hind legs, upright looking at us, disappeared down a vole tunnel in the grass. 
2025-04-21 Blackbird in a hedge sounds gorgeous. 
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2025-04-23 some white butterflies crossing the road as I drove home.
2025-04-24 Dows wood with the class. While the kids drew bluebells I watched butterflies including a speckled wood. 
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2025-04-26 round Gartnavel. Lot of flowers coming out and bird song. A large fish splashed in Bingham's pond. 
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2025-04-28 apple blossom in the school garden and by the road
2025-04-29 morning mist in the low ground. A hare hirpled over a slope into the white. Around lunchtime a swallow flew in, around and out of the classroom. 
2025-04-30 filling at the garage, looking up to the blue sky a heron lumbering above the road. 
2025-05-02 a curled hedgehog dead in the gutter. 
2025-05-03 Walk to Greenside: cuckoos calling & cuckoo flowers. Lots of green, lots of singing birds. The Sun came out and so did green veined whites & orange tips. plenty of Goldfinches.
2025-05-04 Walk to Ben Oss, lots of tiny flora. Cuckoos calling. Grasshopper warbler. a Snipe, a greenshank, wheatear, a couple of grouse. Orange tips and a peacock on lover ground later on. 
2025-05-05 Walking from Braeval car park. Lovely sunny day. Dozens and Dozens of orange tips and Green Veined Whites, but I had my eye out for Green Hairstreak. Eventually saw 3. Lot of warblers. A jay crossing the path. 
2025-05-06 two hares on the curve of fresh barley
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2025-05-08 swallows around a farmyard as I drove around the bend. Summer?
2025-05-09 hot afternoon. Starlings slim & iridescent search the playground. 
2025-05-10 Milngavie to Broomhill, a hawthorn walk, lots of flora & warblers singing. A flash of kingfisher twice. Lots of orange tips flying. A few small tortoise shells and peacocks. I might have seen a couple of fritillary butterflies zooming past.
2025-05-11 Barassie Beach, A Sedge Warbler singing loud and clear, IDed by Merlin, got a photo. Super song. 
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2025-05-13 in the morning a roe 'canters' across a field. Evening by the Clyde, sunny & warm, the swallows are out. 
2025-05-14 sitting in the playground watching butterflies & sparrows. 
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2025-05-16 rabbit roadkill, a young one, this morning. Teaching in the playground an oystercatcher calls.
2025-05-17 Barassie the same sedge warbler singing on the same spot. A few gannets far out.  Sky, sea and Arran all blue. 
2025-05-18 out to Duncolm lots of whites & the first this year, for me, small heaths. A painter lady or two. Several small coppers did not pose. An osprey fishing on Humphrey watched it circle for 20 minutes to half an hour. One half dive, no catch. Very exciting. 
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2025-05-20 a lapwing flys ragged across the morning  road. Two male bullfinch bright red; skinny  fox crosses Cleveden Road
2025-05-21 Outdoor learning with my class today. We saw some lovely creatures. Green Veined White, Large Red Damselfly & Speckled Wood butterfly. The later two repeated returning to a sunlit tree. 
2025-05-22 A magpie chases a grey squirrel across the street. 
2025-05-23 Greenside, First fritillary I've photographed this year, there were a few feeding on Fox & Cubs, colour match meant I nearly missed them.
2025-05-24 after several weeks of sunshine it rained. Started last night overcast with showers today. Didn't stop the blackbirds singing this morning. 
2025-05-25 Ardinning. Out of the corner of my eye I say a movement. Turned round to see an osprey folding its wings and diving into the loch. Came out quickly and flew round and off. I couldn't see if it had been successful. 
2025-05-26 Jaw Reservoir overcast raining quite hard. A few Canada goose families on the loch. A black throated diver out in the middle. Good view at zoom. Just grooming. 
2025-05-27 A few rabbits grazing in a filed I pass in the morning.  They never seemed to have really recovered from myxomatosis.