Took a trip through to the west early this morning on a mission to combine some walking with visiting relatives in Helensburgh. It was a nice enough morning and we were away at 6am with the objective of arriving at Ardmore Point for about 730 for a pleasant early morning stroll around this lovely bird and wildlife sanctuary.
On arrival at 725 we were greeted by some pleasant sunshine and hardly a breath of wind so we sett off with breakfast packed into our rucksacks on the circular around the point. There were plenty of seabirds buzzing around the shore including shelduck, merganser, oystercatcher and mallard. other notable sightings included flocks of starlings and a couple of buzzards. At a point on the shore facing Greenock we stopped for breakfast and were lucky enough to spot 3 seals swimming about not too far offshore, a great sight! Two of them pulled up on rocks just below the water and just did a bit of impromptu sunbathing as it was a lovely morning!!
After breakfast we continued our walk and to our great delight found a small bluetit fledgling trying to fly on the path right in front of us! We thought it might be good to catch it and remove it from the path incase someone stood on it or it was caught by a dog or even a marauding cat.
Its a nice place out there though the path round the point is getting slightly trashed.
ReplyDeleteYou can walk at low tide far out into the bays either side which I,ve done in winter.