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Mossy saxifrage, Crow Road above Lennoxtown
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East Dunbartonshire, Milngavie and Bearsden
Mossy saxifrage (Saxifraga hypnoides or Saxifraga bryoides), Crow Road above Lennoxtown, taken by Sarah Longrigg
28 May 2018
The Campsie Fells from Lennoxtown
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Campsie and Fintry Hills
The Campsie Fells from Lennoxtown, showing the Carboniferous lava flows and a scree slope formed after the last glaciation by frost shattering, and gravity.
01 January 2019
The Campsie Fells from Lennoxtown
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Campsie and Fintry Hills
The Campsie Fells from Lennoxtown, showing the gullied surface of the south slope, where postglacial river erosion has cut into the glacial till and other deposits on the hillside.
01 January 2019
Jackdaws, Lennoxtown
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Campsie and Fintry Hills
Jackdaws (Corvus monedula), Lennoxtown
01 January 2019
Little grebe, Lennoxtown
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CEP - Stirlingshire and East Dunbartonshire
Little Grebe (Tachybaptus ruficollis) nesting on a body of water near Lennoxtown in East Dumbartonshire. Little grebes are the UK's smallest water diving bird, only around half the size of a moorhen. They nest on floating platforms, raising clutches of 4-7 young. Scanned from a slide taken by CE Palmar in 1981.
13 September 1981
Meikle Bin in the snow
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Campsie and Fintry Hills
The Meikle Bin, the second highest point in the Campsie Fells, and the Clachie Burn in the snow from the Crow Road from Lennoxtown to Fintry
15 February 2016
Whitefield Pond, Lennoxtown and the Campsie Fells
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East Dunbartonshire, Milngavie and Bearsden
Whitefield Pond, Lennoxtown with a Mute swan (Cygnus olor) and the Campsie Fells in the snow, showing volcanic lava flows in the Carboniferous basalt, with ledges between the flows picked out by the snow, where less resistant volcanic ash has been worn away by erosion.
26 December 2017
The Campsie Fells and Balgrochan Marsh
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East Dunbartonshire, Milngavie and Bearsden
The Campsie Fells and Balgrochan Marsh in the snow from Lennoxtown. Access to the marsh was improved by a new path in 2016. It supports snipe, roe deer and dragonflies and a new wildlfower meadow. There are plans for some new ponds and tree thinning to retain it as a marsh and encourage amphibians.
26 December 2017
The Campsie Fells and Fin Glen in the snow
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East Dunbartonshire, Milngavie and Bearsden
The Campsie Fells and Fin Glen in the snow from Lennoxtown, with the area of Knowehead and a young forestry plantation in the foreground.
26 December 2017
Dogwood and the Campsie Fells
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East Dunbartonshire, Milngavie and Bearsden
The bright colour of Dogwood (Cornus sanguinea), standing out below the Campsie Fells in the snow from Lennoxtown. This broadleaf shrub can be found along woodland edges and hedgerows. It has one of the hardest timbers and it is said that it was used to make the cross for Jesus's crucifixion.
