Had a good couple of days up in the Highlands on my way
back up to North Ronaldsay, it was gorgeous in the light snow which fell the
day before and the bright, clear sunshine, very cold though getting down to -8
at night. Highlights included my first
UK Capercaillie
with decent flight views of a female and brief views of a male as I flushed
them from trees along a track somewhere above Carrbridge, a few Crested Tits
scattered around the place and a 2cy Golden Eagle in the hills up
Strathdearn where there was also a Peregrine and good numbers of Red Grouse.
Other bits comprised several
Red Squirrels and plenty of Coal Tits, Treecreepers, Siskins, Redpolls and
Bullfinches – which were kind of interesting as many of them were feeding out
in the snow-covered Heather as well as a couple seen flying high south, high up
over a bare moorland covered hillside, may they be continental birds as this
doesn’t seen like British birds behaviour?
Crested Tit
Golden Eagle
Red Grouse
Treecreeper
Bullfinches
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