Olive and I took a trip up to Glen Lethnot to see if the road at Craigendowie had reopened, after a long period when it was closed due to a culvert collapse caused by storms. The road was open but we certainly weren't overrun by bird sightings, with only 3 Red Kites, and surprisingly 4 Reed Buntings.
Further down the glen Buzzards, Kites, and a Kestrel were using the draught blowing up the Hill of Edzell. They all parted as an immature Goshawk took a long, fast glide towards Fieldfares which had lifted from a field in the river valley.
A bit of Buzzard agro amongst a group of seven using the up-draught from the wind blowing up a hill in Glen Lethnot. Note the feather in the left hand bird's talon
It dropped the feather
I had to take many photos to get one with multiple Buzzards in the same distant photo
There were at least three Red Kites but could have been more
The only one that ventured down the hillside but almost immediately flew west out of range and sight
As I walked back down the hill, a flock of Fieldfares rose from the field near the car. They settled briefly in some trees before being flushed by an immature Goshawk, which didn't make much of a chase as it disappeared into the channel of the West Water
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