Monday, January 11, 2016
On a grey rainy day, a rather hunched-up black guillemot was close in to shore on the Moray Firth. It looked a bit messy, being between winter and summer plumage.
Also present were wigeon, teal, scaup, redshanks, rock pipits, curlews, oystercatchers, lapwings, goldeneye - and far, far out, a couple of Slavonian grebes and what looked like a black-throated diver. Four pintails flew west. But I couldn't see any tree sparrows, and wonder if they were only there when the field was newly cut and the straw standing in bales.
// posted by Christine @ 3:41 PM 
