"Nobody's Child", ( Jack and Tom, 1966) a Kinnordy orphan

Still suffering from an improving scratched eye, I ventured out to Backwater Dam, Lintrathen, Kinnordy and Murton where nothing unusual was seen, other than the Green Sandpiper at Murton which was on the car park pond. At Kinnordy, a Whooper family of two adults and two cygnets obliged and came very close to the Gullery Hide, until someone banged a window. With the family was what appeared to be an orphan cygnet, it followed them around but the adult constantly pushed it away. The feeders at Kinnordy were attracting a mixture of birds, but I think there would be more if the Pheasants under the feeders didn't hassle the wee fellas.

Nobody's Child, they don't make them like that anymore, click here!  They stayed with my boyhood friend when playing at the Webster Theatre in the 60's, when I was a mere tiddler!


Whooper Swans video     Whooper cygnet video     Raven video (expelling a pellet?)     Green Sandpiper video

Adult Whooper Swan, Kinnordy

"Orphan" Whooper cygnet, Kinnordy

Maw, Paw and the bairns

Brambling, at the feeders but very wary. Flew off each time someone walked past behind me

Tree Sparrow

Dunnock

Robin

Chaffinch

Lapwings, probably between 200-300 in and around the loch

Teal at Murton

Backwater Dam, from the dam wall at the east end