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Category: Birds

  • Words have not got I

    My head is super entangled right now, work, family concerns, big band gig, weather preventing me from getting home last night, came home tonight to at least five phone calls one after the other, all from people to whom I wanted to speak, so there was a lot of stuff to record. Birds.  The magpies…

  • and so it goes*

    02.05.11 My blog is not a place for political comment, chiefly because I’m painfully aware of my lack of knowledge on the subject.   I will only say therefore that for the first time in yonks I did not switch on the news, tv or radio, first thing this morning, therefore it was perhaps ironic that…

  • 29 April 2011

    We decided to celebrate the Royal Wedding by going up the road to Vane Farm.  From Findatie we walked round to the hide on the eastern shore of Loch Leven.  Met quite a few dogs and saw the usual suspects out on the water, mallard, teal, shoveller & tufties.  There were robin chicks on the…

  • Floody waters

    Today we went to Vane Farm again, there was much ado about a possible sighting of a sea eagle, maybe in the trees, maybe on the loch…  many twitchers had arrived and whether or not they saw what they expected, who knows?  We saw teal, curlew, oyster catcher, black headed gull, whooper swan, goldfinch and…

  • BGBW the follow up

    Well, I spent from 08:10 to 09:10 this morning, just about as soon as the sun was up, clutching a big mug of tea, watching. In the front garden I clocked a total of 5 birds, listed as follows: –  1 blue tit, 1 robin, 2 blackbirds (Mr & Mrs) and 1 sparrow.   Overhead, I…

  • BGBW, BTW

    Yes, Big Garden Bird Watch weekend is here once again, watch your garden birds for one hour this weekend (daylight is best) tally them up and submit your results here. RSPB Early morning or evening is when they will be most active in the search for food.  Mind you, the ones here have made such…

  • Groovin’…

    …on a Sunday afternoon.  Went to the beach today – what else would one do on a snowy Sunday in January?   We watched the sun set beyond the bridges, a wonderful honey gold over ice blue.  I paddled in the sea – courtesy of my George @ASDA wellies – and spotted a team of the…

  • Against the dying of the light

    I don’t know about you but at this time of year my thoughts can become a tad gloomy, morbid even.  I know I am not alone in this, whether it’s the missing faces at the family meals; the fact that disruption to routine inevitably finds me staring at a chunk of time with no allotted…

  • Scunnered

    …yes, just like everyone else.  That’s scunnered with the snow, in case anyone should be in any doubt.   Now we have the sunset, hidden behind dense drifts of rolling, freezing fog.   Snow fell steadily from at least 6:30 a.m. until after noon today, all the carefully cleared driveways have been filled in again.   So, hooray,…

  • Miss Direction

    I like this picture, I was actually trying to catch the acrobatic squirrel which is currently raiding Angela-next-door’s peanut feeder, but this shows just how well camouflaged a wee ball of yellow and blue feathers can be in a bare November garden.  He’s in the cotoneaster. Incidentally,  I was eating my cranberry scone at Vane…