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Category: Birds

  • Gullible

    So, last night, as the heatwave shows no sign of abating, it was back to Aberdour beach to watch the birds clean up the day’s food litter.

  • Bauxite no more

      Roasty toasty Fife still and ever on – went to Burntisland yesterday, and the scene was just lovely – every café was full to bursting, there were queues outside the chippies for cones of chips and cones of ice cream, screams from the shows*, and once I made it to the pool, delight as…

  • Bucket List

    Hear yourself singing on the radio.  Check. Thanks Mincers and Pedro. More to follow, been a bit out of it yet again, but coming through on the coat tails of the usual suspects.

  • Charmed

    Just wanted to document my previous claim regarding a charm of goldfinches – one of the many, many, glorious and wonderful things about the world of birds is the impressive list of collective nouns it has garnered. I have noticed that many birds, face on, look rather aggressive, and the wee chap here is no…

  • Otrnith*

    Below are pictures of some birds we have seen recently.  I did not have the camera to hand when I saw the tree sparrow in our garden but we have been fortunate to see some less common visitors of late, no doubt exploiting all opportunities for food, after the awful weather earlier in the year.…

  • Banking on it

    Nothing new has happened.  This is a Good Thing, there was far too much new stuff earlier on this year.  Although we have been away, to glorious Perthshire (Blair Atholl with the Mincers and Dunkeld by ourselves) and to London.  I think we maybe pushed the envelope until it burst when we went to the…

  • Rabbitrabbitrabbit….

    Jings.  For someone who finds it difficult to shut up, on a record number of occasions this year so far I have been lost for words, bereft of speech, stunned into silence, gobsmacked, and summarily disenfranchised vocally.  This and the manic vortex that has passed for a life recently has resulted in fewer than usual…

  • Winter walk

    Yesterday we managed to escape for a wee while and enjoy the soft winter sunshine along the coastal path between the Bay and Aberdour. We did spot a carrion crow tapping away on a small window towards the top of a house by the golf course.  On closer inspection of the picture it may have…

  • Sweet Wemyss

    Yesterday was one of those lovely bright winter days that fool the birds into spring time behaviour, so not to be outdone, and to celebrate a long overdue redd oot* of the garage, we went exploring, this time to West Wemyss, a village I had never visited.  There are some beautiful examples of Fife architecture…

  • You can’t hurry, love.*

    Listening to the Murray v Djokovic Australian Open final,  cannot bear to watch it. Somethings are changing, others are stubbornly stuck fast.  Yesterday we went to Silver Sands beach at Aberdour, inspired to move around by beautiful beach pictures from chums in Oz for ‘Straila Day, on what turned out to be a rather beautiful…