Christine's walking & birds blog

Well, that was our summer! Back to rain and cold winds early today, although it got slightly brighter and warmer this afternoon. I took a drive out Ledmore way and saw my first juvenile stonechat of the year. Tree pipits were singing in a couple of locations, and a sedge warbler was singing low down in vegetation at the side of the road.


Also seen: a great spotted woodpecker and a grey wagtail.

With regard to the ring-necked duck: it was first found on the loch where I saw it, not in Ullapool as I'd thought. (That was a ring-billed gull - it must have been the "ring" that confused me.)