Christine's walking & birds blog

It was good to visit Achnahaird again, despite a heavy shower of rain when I was in the middle of the saltmarsh. A sanderling among the ringed plovers cheered things up.


This rather drab dunlin was one of about a dozen at Badentarbat.


Also seen: two pairs of red-throated divers, about fifteen twite, a juvenile wheatear, and a solitary gannet.

Yesterday we walked sun-dappled tracks at Rosehall but saw very few birds.


At a junction of paths before the climb you pass an area of conifers, mostly spruce with some larch, that's so spookily dense and dark you can't see for more than a couple of metres in from the edge. A real black forest.


A blue-tailed damselfly was a first for me near the pond.


A nearby patch of ragged robin gave me a plant tick.


A nice name for a lovely wildflower.