Don’t all flock at once, I have just heard that BBC Autumnwatch has been filming at RSPB Loch Leven (aka Vane Farm) and will broadcast the section next week.  Great stuff, but don’t make it too famous, we still want to be able to grab that window seat in the café at least twice a year.

Here are some locals displaying almost febrile excitement.

Before you start, Puffinus puffinus is a Manx Shearwater.  And T. * 3 is the King of Birds, so he’s entitled to the moniker.  Latin, huh??    Oh well, and while we’re on about birds, I saw a cormorant feeding in fresh water at RSPB LL yesterday, geese doing whole body rolls and Whooper swans coming into land en masse.  Just as we left the geese began to come home to roost, in great twirling skeins.

I may start to take this hobby seriously.