Saturday, November 15, 2014
A few days ago I thought I saw a hirundine from the bungalow, flying north over the village. This morning, as we came out of Tesco, I definitely saw a hirundine - flying north over the village. I grabbed the bins from the car seat but couldn't make out whether it was a swallow or a martin.
We drove to Badentarbat beach and walked up the small hill in the centre of the picture. It was fairly cold but we had blue sky and misty sunshine all day. Birds: a pair of stonechats, a raven, three oystercatchers, eleven ringed plovers, and a single whooper swan.
Driving away we saw a very distant male goldeneye on a reed-fringed loch, displaying hopefully to three uninterested mallards.
By 4.30 pm it was dark. We're on much the same latitude here as southern Sweden; and the days will get shorter yet.
// posted by Christine @ 3:04 PM 
