Scotland Holiday Day 8: Ythan Estuary at Newburgh 5th June 2016 Again this was a family day but, again, we got some birding in. My family, despite living just a few miles alay from Newburgh, had never been to this part of the estuary and on a blazingly hot day they were captivated by it….
Scotland Holiday Day 7: Loch of Strathbeg 4th June 2016 At this stage of our holiday we were more oriented to family than birding but, of course, we always manage to find a way to introduce a little bit so we dragged the family to Loch of Strathbeg. The whole place is being done up…
Scotland Holiday Day 6: Bullers of Buchan 3rd June 2016 We left Grantown rather regretting the missed birds, Crested Tit, Ptarmigan, Capercaillie, Black Grouse but we had got some nice birds and, indeed, a life tick so we couldn’t really complainn; especially since the weather had been so good almost all of the time. One…
Scotland Holiday Day 5: Anagach Forest, Loch Garten, Lochindorb and Nethy Bridge 2nd June 2016 I started off the day with a walk in Anagach Forest but didn’t get any Cresties. I did get a lot of pictures of Red Squirrels, some of which should be OK. I also got a couple of longer distance…
Scotland Holiday Day 4: Strathdearn and Loch Ruthven, 1st June 2016 We started the day off going to the Findhorn Valley (actually Strathdearn) with the idea that we might see some Eagles. On our way down the valley a Roe Deer jumped out in front of our car from our right, turned and looked at…
Summary May 2016 Species this month = 132 New Species added to 2016 Year List in May= 41 Barn Owl at Thornham on 8th May, Bar-tailed Godwit at Minsmere on 3rd May, Bearded Tit at Titchwell on 7th, Blackcap and Common Tern at Rutland Water on 13th, Black-throated Diver and Common Sandpiper at Lochindorb on…
Scotland Holiday Day 3: Anagach Forest, Lochindorb, Carrbridge, Avielochan and Cairngorm, 31st May 2016 I started off the day with an early walk from 5.45am – 7.15am in the Anagach Forest. This time the first animal I encountered was a Roe Deer and in the woods the bird feeders were dominated by Red Squirrels –…
Scotland Holiday Day 2: Laggan and Anagach Forest, 30th May 2016 On our way to Grantown on Spey we saw a Raven, a pair of Red-legged Partridge, a Buzzard and a few other birds. We were in plenty of time arriving at the hotel so we came off the main road to Grantown on Spey…
Scotland Holiday Day 1: WWT Caerlaverock : 29th May 2016 On our way up to Dumfries we stopped off at WWT Caerlaverock. It was a lovely day but there wasn’t anything special on show just a smattering of ducks and hedgerow birds. We took the path down to the Avenue Tower and diverted, halfway down,…
Upper Goyt Valley & Dane Bower Quarry : 20th May 2016 We are due to go to Scotland at the same time as the birding group has scheduled Upper Goyt Valley so we will miss it. We decided to go there, a little earlier than usual) in the hope of seeing the usual species we…
