Monday, May 17, 2021
Spring is slowly coming to the Highlands. Spring? In just over a month it'll be midsummer! Seen recently: a tree pipit, a willow warbler singing in the gorse, and a singing, displaying wheatear on a windy day.
At Knockan Crag today there was no sign of the ring ouzel; but a calling cuckoo flew across the rock face and alighted in a tree. A protesting meadow pipit landed near him (bottom right of pic). After a while a female cuckoo appeared and flew off with the male towards Cul Mor, the pipit in hot pursuit.
I've also seen my first whitethroat, sedge warbler, spotted flycatcher, swallow, and house martin of the year; but wood warbler and grasshopper warbler remain elusive - magical but disembodied voices from inaccessible places.
// posted by Christine @ 2:28 PM 
