Tuesday, July 10, 2018
Some bits and pieces:
A pair of adult black-throated divers were accompanied (sometimes at some distance) by two juveniles - one obviously older than the other.
Greger meanwhile had gone to Inverness to fetch my damaged camera; we went a couple of weeks ago, but it was still not working properly and had to go back. This time he checked it all in the shop, and it seems okay. Thanks to his bad foot and my sinusitis we haven't been able to use the lovely weather to do any more hill-walking; and now, it seems, the dry sunny spell is over.
I went back to Loch Glascarnoch and found the common or round-leaved sundew (Drosera rotundifolia) in flower.
I also noticed another kind of sundew with longer, larger leaves; the tallest was 20cm, so I think these are great sundew (Drosera angelica). This was confirmed by info on seasonalwildflowers.com.
A short walk at Alness Point on the Cromarty Firth brought common, Arctic, and little terns. Everything went up when an osprey approached from the north and hovered over the pools; and Greger tried out his telephoto lens.
// posted by Christine @ 12:44 PM 
