Christine's walking & birds blog

Greger painted the main garage door a lovely postbox(ish) red this morning while I cleaned windows and did other housework; then we painted the flaking, mulberry-coloured wrought-iron side of the outside porch black. It looked much better black. We then felt we'd earned our walk.

At least one willow warbler has reached Ullapool! We heard it singing half-heartedly along the river path but, as with the chiffchaff on Sunday, failed to locate it (mainly because I don't like to hang around too long as we're supposed to be out for exercise only).

Back home, two coal tits visiting the feeder gave me another lockdown garden tick.....


......and there was yet another when a peregrine was spotted soaring above the village very high, before powering off to the south....


.....and there should have been a third, but it was too quick for me. A martin swooping over the roof-tops could have been either sand or house - although sand martin is probably more likely.