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Scotland Visit Day 3 & 4 : Forvie & The Ythan Estuary : 10th September 2011
Scotland Visit Day 3 & 4 : Forvie & The Ythan Estuary : 10th September 2011 We has been to various bits of the Ythan estuary on previous visits to Aberdeen-shire but we wanted to go to the parts where we might have a chance of seeing waders. We were also interested in going to
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Scotland Visit Day 2 : Loch of the Lowes : 9th September 2011
Scotland Visit Day 2 : Loch of the Lowes : 9th September 2011 We left Stirling on Friday with the intention of getting to Aberdeen by around 6pm. This gave us just enough time to drop in to the Loch of the Lowes Scottish Wildlife trust reserve on our way up. We didn’t have a
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Scotland Visit Day 1 : Lerrocks Farm : 8th September 2011
Scotland Visit Day 1 : Lerrocks Farm : 8th September 2011 The main reason that we had decided to stay in Stirling was to attend the Red Kite feeding at Lerrocks Farm in Doune, Stirlingshire. We had gone to RSPB Inversnaid, on the banks of Loch Lomond, in the morning but we had to leave earlier
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Scotland Visit Day 1 : RSPB Inversnaid : 8th September 2011
Scotland Visit Day 1 : RSPB Inversnaid : 8th September 2011 We had the chance to visit family up north so we decided to make a bit of a break of it by staying at some birding places on the way there and back. We drove from Manchester to Stirling on 7th September. We had
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Summary of August 2011
Summary of August 2011 Weather The month started started with very mixed weather, some days being very wet, others quite hot and humid. By the end of the first week it was raining every day and stayed that way for the second week of August. By the third week it was a little better but
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“The Secret Life of Birds: Who they are and what they do” by Colin Tudge : 15 August 2011
“The Secret Life of Birds: Who they are and what they do” by Colin Tudge : 15 August 2011. I have not been doing a great deal of birding this month because I have had a bad cold that has meant that I have been a bit house-bound. Having already read any outstanding books on
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RSPB British Birds of Prey by Marianne Taylor & Stig Frode Olsen : 8 August 2011
RSPB British Birds of Prey by Marianne Taylor & Stig Frode Olsen : 8 August 2011 This book was recommended to me particularly for the photographs by Stig Frode Olsen and it has to be said that it is hard to imagine better photography than this. Each species has eight to ten accompanying photographs each

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