I eventually tracked down some Whinchats, it's much easier when you go out to look! Some Red Kites were a welcome bonus, but we were brought back down to earth again when we started seeing traps.
I've included links to some recent videos below, a mixture including my Vixen, Mice, Yellowhammers, Waders and the entertaining juvenile Starlings.
Bar-tailed Godwit Ringed Plover Sanderlings Turnstone Mouse Starlings
Whinchat, some way off in a windy Glen. This is the first of the good, subjects not photos
One of 8 Whinchats on 4 territories. Reluctantly I have to say that Olive spotted this one.....
Lots of Curlews, a fair number of Lapwings, a few Oystercatchers and a single Snipe
Two of three Red Kites which I thought were "playing" until I saw the photos at home, they were squabbling in a long aerial battle over a baby rabbit. Unfortunately they wouldn't do it anywhere near Olive and I, and at one point a fourth Kite got involved, then two of them escorted a Buzzard into the next glen
You can see the rabbit in the left-hand birds talons
Common Heath Moth, and I expect the large antennae means it's a male trying to sniff out a female
This one is "the Dad" who must have been foraging in the wet undergrowth
"The Ugly", one of the thousands of similar traps set across Scotland's grouse moors with the intention of impaling Stoats, Weasels and Rats. We should be grateful in this case that it seems to match all of the regulations - however it's still lethal and doesn't always kill instantly if some poor animal gets caught by its leg
No comments:
Post a Comment