Ayrshire+ Photographs

IBecause of the very bad weather, we’ve been putting out half apples as food for the fieldfares which would not normally come near a garden. We have had two visit us; I didn’t have the camera to hand either time and the visits were short lived. We did however find that the blackbirds were partial to apple as well – all that gets left is the outer skin!

The dunnock is a bird which is exceptionally easy to overlook as it normally skulks in the bottom of hedgerows – see the second photograph particularly.

One bird which we tend to take for granted (or even consider as a pest) is the starling. It is almost impossible to capture the irridescence of the plumage, but this at least shows the pattern.

The next few posting are of photographs taken through the window of birds in the garden.

I had noticed a rather handsome song thrush trying to get some fat ball from the feeder without much success, so I put one ball in the tray. The blackbirds kept trying to chase the thrush off, but it kept coming back

I took this up beside the racecourse.

If you can’t work out what it is, go here.

Tuesday night was a hard frost as these pictures of Ayr Racecourse on Wednesday morning show.

Well actually about 10.00 on the 2nd of February. I just wanted folk to see that Arran isn’t always blessed by beautiful sunshine!

I’ve been looking at some of the negatives taken by my late parents-in-law on the Isle of Arran.

This is from 1946.

This from 1950.

This from 1951.

I then moved slightly South to Doonfoot.

I wonder how long Greenan castle will remain on the headland.

Looking the other way shows the large houses built beside the sea.