On this cold day with a speckling of snow on the tops, four Canada geese were with eleven whooper swans, a handful of mallards, and a pair of wigeon at the north-west end of Loch Glascarnoch. They're the first Canada geese I've seen here.
A black grouse was seen from the road, performing acrobatics in order to reach the male (?) catkins.
A large brown bird, almost certainly a buzzard, glided through the scene; I tried to follow it, and when I looked back at the tree the grouse had disappeared. Before I drove away I saw at least two blackcocks with one greyhen feeding in another silver birch further up the hill.
