https://stonefactionbirding2014.blogspot.com/2024/04/1239-not-very-summery-1424.html
Officially Summertime....yet, you'd be hard pushed to tell from the weather at Riverside Nature Park on the 1st of April....
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So much for the joy of being out......
Following my moan- fest in Dunbar I was desperate to get back out, find space and time, somehow and somewhere. I had booked a couple of days off work to give me a (very) long weekend, and had a set-in-stone plan to visit the Sma' Glen. The 'plan' if you can call it that beforehand was to fit in as much 'guerilla birding' as possible. Fit in birding amongst the taxi- duties and man- tasks. Dropped eldest mini- Sand at work, and headed for Cathkin Marsh. Not in the expectation of great birding, but more as part of a back-to-basics approach. That, and the chance of a willow warbler....
Predictably, the micro- climate meant the wind and rain arrived early, and a useless driver (parker?) in a...
After an exhausting term 2 in university physics, I realised I had not been out birdwatching since the start of the year! Three trips to Thetford Forest followed, which resulted in incredible great grey shrike photos. Currently hoping for a golden eagle encounter in Spain, as well as seeing common eider and lady's slipper orchids in the north of England in April and May.
https://naturalistgb.blogspot.com/2024/03/thetford-forest-spring-2024.html
I can often be a bit grumpy. I’m happy to admit it, I often revel in it, as a joke my kids bought me one of those mood bracelets, and have since expressed concern about what I’d be like without it. Sometimes, though, my grumpiness is well warranted.
I love being outdoors, and I struggle with the fact that I have to work, and have other family- related duties to fulfil, and can’t actually go birding 7 days a week. I suppose I could but would remain neither married nor employed for long. I need days out to maintain my equilibrium. I’m not a twitcher of birds, but I twitch if I don’t get to go birding.
After my highly enjoyable, soul- restoring Musselburgh trip my birding became very stilted in March. One of the perks of being employed...
Sometimes as a birder, you just have to grin and bear it....
I've realised I need to stop listening to my mate Bill. Sure, he's a repository of a lifetime's worth of birding knowledge, and is damned good company to boot, but his other- worldly luck with birding sets an exceptionally high bar, and an unrealistic expectation of "well, my mate Bill can do it, so can I...." This is a chap, remember, who birds go to see.
My trip to Fairlie, as challenging as it had been, was still good enough to reignite the warm, happy birding glow, after my January stutters. I resisted the urge to do a comparison with January 2023, and instead focused on my next adventure. Bill had happily let me know he had had an excellent day in Dumbartonshire...
I am more confident about this set of pictures. The bird has black legs and bill, yellow feet and was wading and fishing on the shore line. Location: south of Caleta de Fuste (c. 1 mile). Some pictures are sharp, other balletic. What a lovely bird. I enjoyed following it along the shore line, though I never got as close as I wanted.