22nd
July 2017 (Saturday)
..... 09.00 We have a ‘bright and very breezy’ morning.... a bonnie
morning for doing things; a visit to
Cruden Bay seems a good
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| Cruden Bay pond. |
‘plan’. I’ll
pack my holdall tonight, and travel down tomorrow morning; I was thinking of going down the ‘Slug Road’
but the Stonehaven end is in the middle of major roadworks ..... so, the ‘Cairn
o’ Mount’ road it is.
20.00 Iain and I had a very enjoyable mission to
the former brickwork's site at Cruden Bay..... it is the perfect place for
insects, and is not far from the road.
There are two ponds where insects abound; Butterflies, Damselflies, Moths, Clegs (horse
flies), and multifarious others. I
assume the ponds are the holes left
after clay was dug out. The site is on
the market with planning consent for 261 houses: apparently the ‘nature’ bit, including the
ponds will be untouched, but 261 houses nearby means more human activity, so
the ‘nature’ bit won’t be the peaceful place it is now.
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| Iain stalking a Common Blue butterfly. |
The
weather has been ‘bright and breezy’ all day.... and warm, in spite of the wind
being from the Easterly direction. Tomorrow’s
weather is forecast to be wet in the morning, clearing in the afternoon, in
Aberdeenshire. Fife is going to be
much the same; overcast in the morning
with rain moving over. I’m bumbling
back home to ‘The Royal Burrow’ tomorrow:
if it’s raining I won’t be stopping at the top of the Cairn o’ Mount to
take photographs.
Iain
and I took my car down to Ellon to pick up Catriona, who had been into ‘Aiberdeen’
with her friends,... and to ‘fuel up’ the car.
Picking up Catriona was a dawdle .... actually it wisnae ‘cos I
circumnavigated a huge Car Park,
unnecessarily,
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| Burnet Moths - er ... not speaking to each other. |
before stopping at the ‘Pick
Up’ point..... but it was a good job Iain was there when it came to the refuelling
bit at Tesco’s. It was one of those
petrol pumps with a choice of two payment methods; which is one more than I can cope with. Had Iain not been there I’d have gone up to
Maud .... there’s an auld fashioned petrol station in Maud. Actually the first time Maggie and I went
into Tesco’s and saw the ‘card’ method payment, we went straight up to
Maud! We didn’t read the ‘rools’ that
told us we could have paid in the kiosk!
Anyway, Catriona is home, and the car is fuelled up for ‘ra morra’; and, .... it looks like it could rain soon.
Photographs
: Top – one of the Cruden Bay nature site ponds, Middle – Iain ‘stalking’ a
Common Blue Butterfly, and Bottom – Burnet Moths... er ... not speaking to each other.
