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Well, there you go, I hadn't noticed this area before, glad I've found it now. I've been walking at the reservoir as often as possible and one of my goals has been to view and photograph the Crossbills up there, sometimes I see them, sometimes I don't :( but, I've been putting together a photo diary of that contact for 2023, I've already started 2024.
I'm not up there every day or even every week but I'm hoping to keep the visits and hopefully contacts more regular this year.
A year in the life of Crossbills in the Angus Glens
Jeez, how long did January last??
My last post was labelled January: The Beginning. This one should probably be called: January: The Second Beginning, but that’d be too direct and nowhere near cryptic enough for my liking.
My good start to the year had filled me with confidence, and wee bit of smug achievement. Yeah, sure, birding in gloomy winter twilight wasn't ideal, but at least I was getting out. The tentative plans that I'd made from the autumn onward hadn't completely gone belly up. I was enjoying things- even if, at times, I was being grumpy about it.
So it came at the start of the second week of the month I had my first trip Eastward. I mentioned in the summary of 2023 that I'd be cheaper buying property in Musselburgh, and...
It's much warmer today but a few more inches of snow. I took a few more photos of the Lappie just after lunch.
Lapland Longspur
Rather chilly this morning. After feeding my yard birds I went up the lane to the place where I've been photographing the Larks, Buntings and Longspurs for years. When it snow's they search for seeds along the roadways on the edges where the snow ploughs have exposed the grasses on the verge. It can't be easy for them so I help them out a bit.:rolleyes:
Field Birds
Periodically, I go through an epiphany that its not all about ticks, and I should stop complaining and just enjoy being birding. My inner monologue seems to take the persona of either a nagging spouse or a disappointed parent, it seems. Which is fairly surprising since I don't have either.
Post- Fife debacle, I had a few weeks of flying visits to the Haugh, and walking locally. Activities which were deeply enjoyable without being earth- shatteringly exciting. There's something about autumn that appeals to me, and in practical terms the leaves falling ironically meant I got better views of things than I enjoyed during the 'peak' birding weeks/ months.
All that local stuff made me feel like I'd been neglecting Musselburgh, and I...
Went on an Osprey Census the other day. Didn't shoot any images nearly as interesting as the one you find in this post, but the experience was worthwhile nonetheless! The Osprey in the picture above was photographed during a visit to the Santa Maria Saltpans few days earlier. A report of the Osprey Census can be found on our blog, link in profile ;)
Those birds are simply incredible.
Not a happy day in the household.
Pro's and Con's of Woodland Living
And so…. It had finally arrived. The New (birding) Year. The anticipation, the build- up, the planning that seemed to have started in the autumn when Birding 2023 had become awfully difficult. All came down to one day……
….which was spent at home, ticking species from the garden feeders. Ironically, the weather forecast suggested that Ne’er Day would, meteorogically- speaking, be the best day of the week. In amongst doing Dad duties (cooking a damned fine dinner, if I do say so myself) I plumped myself down on my doorstep and watched the frenzy at the feeders. Almost as if the birds themselves had been saving things up. All the usual garden species, and in good numbers. The highlight would ordinarily have been a female blackbird, its...
An average Winter Sunday Morning in Pennsylvania - Mike's Photographs
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