Scotland Visit Day 6 : WWT Caerlaverock : 13th September 2011 On the Tuesday morning we drove from Stirling to Dumfries. The weather wasn’t brilliant but the worst of the storms seemed to pass in the night. We had planned on going over to the west coast and then driving down and then inland again…
Scotland Visit Day 5 : Montrose Basin : 12th September 2011 On Monday we had to return to Manchester but we still had a couple of interesting places to visit on our way back. Firstly we wanted to go to Montrose Basin Local Nature Reserve and then to break up the journey a bit we planned…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
“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…
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…
Mixed Flock in Garden : 7th August 2011 A very unusual sight in the garden. I looked casually at the back garden feeders as I must do a million times a day and was somewhat amazed to see half a dozen Long-tailed Tits all over the feeders. On top of this there were nine Blue…
