Christine's walking & birds blog

We'd just got out of the car (carefully, because of the ice) when a large bird flew over, heading north-west and disappearing over a distant snowy hill. Adult white-tailed sea eagle, we decided.


I switched the camera off and turned - and suddenly there was a second one, flapping steadily past, a couple of hundred metres away.


We came for a walk here in the snow on Friday (a much brighter day) and saw a sea eagle flying along the same route. Today, the weather wasn't inviting. A male stonechat was hunting from a fence on a high stretch of road - near a spot height on the map of 102 metres.