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| Dozy Squirrel and Coal Tits |
Lovely bike ride over Shawhead and Crocketford in warming weather, diverting to Glenkilns Reservoir (no black swan only greylags) after sighting a red squirrel on the Estate. Stopped for lunch, looking into crystal clear water. On way to Crocketford came across a broken wall where birds were clustering. They were all coal tits, far more than I have ever seen together before, picking up bits of food that someone must have left on the wall. Then another red squirrel appeared and, seemingly dozy, wondered along the wall almost on top of me before it took fright, and a third squirrel did exactly the same thing.
After an excellent pint of Old Speckled Hen in the
Galloway Arms, saw a fourth squirrel lolloping around a tree on the back road to Shawhead and a red kite circling around over the moor. Definitely my record for red squirrels in a single day.
Last week saw a linnet singing away on a hedgerow while on U3A walk near Gretna.
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