Christine's walking & birds blog

My first greenshank of the year was seen in Dundonell, feeding at the end of Little Loch Broom with three redshanks.

Otherwise, birds were mostly absent on our drive south. From one of the high lay-bys at First Coast, in a maddening wind and a heavy shower, I spotted something flying low across the water that looked very much like a shearwater. A few days ago, my first redpolls of the year (two) were in a flock of goldfinches and siskins in the plantations up at the Braes - feeding in larches.