2/10/22 Lesser Yellowlegs at Saltholme

 Visited the Lesser Yellowlegs, which was very distant, also saw Spoonbill, Ruff and Barnacle geese

Record shot of Lesser Yellowlegs

Ruff

28th September Back home and a Nightjar at Saltholme

 Visited the Nightjar that had taken to roosting on a fence at RSPB Saltholme - love these birds.

26th September Red Kite

 Located at least 7 Red Kite gathered together impressive site and, in a location out of Nethy Bridge, we had not seen them before - noticed that one adult bird was equipped with a transmitter.

Spot the transmitter

25th September Carrbridge and surrounding area

 Had a drive around Carrbridge and visited our Cresties again.

24th September Grantown-on-Spey

 The river Spey held Goosander, Canada Geese, Heron and Dipper. On our not-too-distant Crested Tit site the birds responded to the food we had laid the previous day and performed well as they cashed the food for the winter.

23rd September - Bruar

 On our way up to the highlands called into House of Bruar for a quick breakfast and a walk up the falls, a Red Squirrel was gathering nuts for the winter and the fungi was fascinating.

An unexpected caterpillar

A Squirrel gathering nuts

Red-backed Shrike

 Called in to South Gare again this afternoon to see if we could re-locate the Red-backed Shrike that we had seen yesterday - took a bit of time but we eventually managed to find it in the area that it had been yesterday. The weather was absolutely foul, but the bird was still managing to feed on bees that it subsequently spiked on thorns. After this we drove up to Scaling Dam in thick fog and managed to locate two Little Stint at distance with several Dunlin. There was also a dead Canada goose outside the hide which I assume was a casualty of bird flu!!!

South Gare migrant fall

The poor weather is not all bad - today we managed to catch up with Red-backed Shrike, Common Redstart, Spotted Flycatcher and Lesser Whitethroat at the blast pools area of South Gare, the weather was very poor, wet and windy, but the birds although distant were good to see.