Christine's walking & birds blog

.....as it seems to be the only brambling left around here (at least in our garden!) The first was out the front with numerous squabbling chaffinches, siskins, goldfinches, and greenfinches; and the second was glimpsed from a back window preening itself just behind our heating-oil tank. I'm really watching out for the redpolls that I saw a few days ago - but no luck so far. A song thrush was heard singing this morning, and an afternoon visit to Ardmair brought two great northern divers and a distant black guillemot in breeding plumage. Horrible weather.