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Stockingfield Bridge construction, Forth and Clyde Canal, Glasgow
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Glasgow - Kelvin Walkway, Forth and Clyde Canal, Dawsholm and Garscube
Works beginning to create the new twin-span pedestrian, cycle and wheeling Stockingfield Bridge over the Forth and Clyde Canal in Glasgow, where the Glasgow branch of the Forth and Clyde Canal joins the main line of the canal which runs from Bowling to Grangemouth. The new bridge will promote active travel and join up communities previously divided from each other, such as Wyndford, Ruchill and Gilshochill. Taken by David Palmar
12 January 2021
Stockingfield Bridge construction, Forth and Clyde Canal, Glasgow
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Glasgow - Kelvin Walkway, Forth and Clyde Canal, Dawsholm and Garscube
Works beginning to create the new twin-span pedestrian, cycle and wheeling Stockingfield Bridge over the Forth and Clyde Canal in Glasgow, where the Glasgow branch of the Forth and Clyde Canal joins the main line of the canal which runs from Bowling to Grangemouth. The new bridge will promote active travel and join up communities previously divided from each other, such as Wyndford, Ruchill and Gilshochill. Taken by David Palmar
12 January 2021
Stockingfield Bridge construction, Forth and Clyde Canal, Glasgow
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Glasgow - Kelvin Walkway, Forth and Clyde Canal, Dawsholm and Garscube
Works beginning to create the new twin-span pedestrian, cycle and wheeling Stockingfield Bridge over the Forth and Clyde Canal in Glasgow, where the Glasgow branch of the Forth and Clyde Canal joins the main line of the canal which runs from Bowling to Grangemouth. The new bridge will promote active travel and join up communities previously divided from each other, such as Wyndford, Ruchill and Gilshochill. Taken by David Palmar
12 January 2021
Red Fox asleep beside the Forth and Clyde Canal, Glasgow
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Glasgow - Kelvin Walkway, Forth and Clyde Canal, Dawsholm and Garscube
Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes) curled up beside the Forth and Clyde Canal, Glasgow, taken by David Palmar. Red foxes do quite well in the city, where it is warmer than the countryside, and where food is in reasonable supply, either from bins, from children throwing away their excess food, or from more conventional sources, such as rodents.
12 January 2021
Black-headed Gull eating white bread on the frozen Forth and Clyde Canal, Glasgow
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Glasgow - Kelvin Walkway, Forth and Clyde Canal, Dawsholm and Garscube
Black-headed Gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus) eating a slice of white bread on the frozen Forth and Clyde Canal in Maryhill, Glasgow, taken by David Palmar Birds become hungry in the winter when food is scare and the demands of keeping warm increase. , birds will eat whatever they can find, even if white bread is not as good for them as natural food sources.
12 January 2021
Moorhens fighting over bread on the frozen Forth and Clyde Canal, Glasgow
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Glasgow - Kelvin Walkway, Forth and Clyde Canal, Dawsholm and Garscube
Three Moorhens (Gallinula chloropus) fighting over a slice of white bread on the frozen Forth and Clyde Canal in Maryhill, Glasgow, taken by David Palmar Birds become hungry in the winter when food is scare and the demands of keeping warm increase. Birds will eat whatever they can find, even if white bread is not as good for them as natural food sources.
12 January 2021
Moorhens competing for bread on the frozen Forth and Clyde Canal, Glasgow
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Glasgow - Kelvin Walkway, Forth and Clyde Canal, Dawsholm and Garscube
Two Moorhens (Gallinula chloropus) fighting over a slice of white bread on the frozen Forth and Clyde Canal in Maryhill, Glasgow, taken by David Palmar Birds become hungry in the winter when food is scare and the demands of keeping warm increase. Birds will eat whatever they can find, even if white bread is not as good for them as natural food sources.
12 January 2021
Black-headed Gulls fighting over bread on the frozen Forth and Clyde Canal, Glasgow
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Glasgow - Kelvin Walkway, Forth and Clyde Canal, Dawsholm and Garscube
Two Black-headed Gulls (Chroicocephalus ridibundus) fighting over a slice of white bread on the frozen Forth and Clyde Canal in Maryhill, Glasgow, taken by David Palmar Birds become hungry in the winter when food is scare and the demands of keeping warm increase. Birds will eat whatever they can find, even if white bread is not as good for them as natural food sources.
12 January 2021
Slices of white bread on the ice, Forth and Clyde Canal, Maryhill
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Glasgow - Kelvin Walkway, Forth and Clyde Canal, Dawsholm and Garscube
Half a white loaf thrown out on to the icy Forth and Clyde Canal in Maryhill, taken by David Palmar. Such supplementary feeding may save some birds from starvation in winter, but it is much better to feed them with grain, or wholemeal bread, as white bread is not good for them and can clog up their insides.
03 January 2021
Cormorants on old railway viaduct pillar, Kelvindale
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Glasgow - Kelvin Walkway, Forth and Clyde Canal, Dawsholm and Garscube
Cormorants (Phalacrocorax carbo) roosting on an old railway viaduct pillar above the River Kelvin in Kelvindale, taken in winter from the Kelvin Aqueduct on the Forth and Clyde Canal by David Palmar
