Thursday, May 22, 2014
On a two-day business trip to London, Greger went up the Shard. The railway, coming across the river from Cannon Street Station, leads upstream towards the London Eye. And we thought the views from that were fantastic!
Yesterday it rained non-stop here in Ullapool, and it was a bit drizzly today so we went for a drive north to Kylescu. I saw my first gannet and kittiwake of the year. Several small brown birds were whizzing around on the steep bank below, and I said I thought they were redpolls.
"Redpolls!" said Greger. "They're too dark, surely?" (Is he becoming a birder?!) And yes, this was indeed a twite.
But I also took a hopeful shot into a gorse bush where a second bird was foraging; and I'm pleased to see that that one is a redpoll.
At the Knockan lochan a greenshank was seen, while a pair of stonechats fed at least two fluttering fledglings on the bank. It was freezing cold today, and we were content with lay-by birding, some of it from the car.
// posted by Christine @ 2:58 PM 
