Wednesday, January 17, 2018


The tide was out, and we didn't spend long trying to sort out the distant loafing gulls on the spit because of the insane, freezing wind. In the relative shelter of West Shore Street, a female stonechat was a nice sight, still eking out a living on the beach.


Along the river path we saw lesser redpoll, great spotted woodpecker, and treecreeper as well as a mixed tit flock. The yellow brain fungus (Tremella mesenterica) took me straight back to Egypt Woods in Bucks, where I snapped a lesser spotted woodpecker close to some of this fungus in December 2011.


When Greger drives home on Thursday nights with his head full of Spanish verbs, this is one of the hazards he has to watch out for on the Dirrie Mor. The stag turned away and ran out onto the moorland, fortunately.


It was captured on his dash cam, which has also caught flying red grouse on a couple of occasions - but they were too fast and too small for useful stills.

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