Christine's walking & birds blog

Greger decided to spend the morning on his Spanish, in preparation for the online lesson later today that the teacher has organised for his evening class; so I went for my constitutional alone.

The dipper was a welcome sight (my first of the year), standing on a rock in the middle of the Ullapool River.


Yesterday, when we rounded the point into West Shore Street, I remarked to Greger that I've seen wheatears here in past years. We weren't lucky - but today, oh joy of joys, there was a wheatear!



I'm aware of how lucky I am to be living here at the moment. It's not such a hardship to miss out on hill-walks and moorland walks when I can see gorgeous birds right here in the village.

This is the seventh day of lockdown, and it would have been the seventh day we haven't been near Tesco or any other shop. We'd made a list and planned to go tomorrow. But Greger, going out for a short walk after I'd got back home, went round by Tesco to see if they were carrying out the distancing measures they've been talking about. They were, and it looked quite quiet, so he went in and bought a few items. It was so nice to have a newspaper again!  Doing without for a while certainly makes you appreciate the small things that we take so much for granted.