Christine's walking & birds blog

Following our tantalisingly brief sighting yesterday, I drove back to the dam today in hopes of seeing snow buntings again. I was unlucky, but I had a good walk and spotted my first bullfinches of the year - two males and two females, I think, foraging in and around the small trees just above the loch.

The male stonechat I saw yesterday was still present, and when it flew down to poke about in a messy area on the water's edge, I realised that there were at least three other birds there. These turned out to be reed buntings - not quite snow buntings, but still a very acceptable sighting for me this early in the year.