The Buzzards are Back

The air temperature almost dropped to zero last night bringing a hard ground frost, the first of the year, and, this morning,...

....high cirrus skies over Dunrobin Castle. Then, above the treeline, we spotted....

....the first buzzard in weeks, wheeling against the blue....

....accompanied by a second.

Seeing them was a huge relief. The idea that this fine bird would no longer be patrolling our skies didn't bear thinking about. I only hope that these are 'our' buzzards, not new ones coming in to fill a gap left by the loss of the resident birds.

Perhaps our buzzards have been on holiday, maybe a cruise to visit relatives in Spain. Sounds ridiculous? Well, a Scottish osprey was tracked hitching a lift on not one but two ships on its journey south this year - look at the BBC News website story here.