Wednesday 31st December

A count of the birds at the Ardeer Quarry LNR site produced:

Woodhead Plantation:
Greenfinch - 3
Carrion Crow - 2
Blue Tit - 9
Coal Tit - 2
Great Tit - 1
Magpie - 4
Blackbird - 9
Redwing - 2
Robin - 4
Chaffinch - 1
Starling - 1

Hawthorn/Alder/Conifer thicket:
Blue Tit - 3
Blackbird - 9
Magpie - 1
Song Thrush - 1
Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1
Bullfinch - 2

B752 embankment:
Blue Tit - 2
Robin - 2
Blackbird - 2

Wood by Gavin's Wee Pond:
Robin - 3
Wren - 1
Magpie - 2
Blackbird - 7
Blue Tit - 3
Coal Tit - 1
Great Tit - 1
Treecreeper - 3

In the large field (most birds in scrub around periphery of field):
Long-tailed Tit - 7
Blue Tit - 2
Robin - 1
Grey Heron - 1
Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2
Dunnock - 1

In the cycle path's Hawthorn hedge:
Blue Tit - 2
Song Thrush - 1
Robin - 1
Chaffinch - 3

Some recent fungi:

Stump Puffball (Ardeer Quarry today):

Blushing Bracket (Ardeer Quarry today):
Velvet Shank (Garnock East a couple of days ago):