This morning we walked the tracks in Balblair woods which skirt the north shore of Loch Fleet, looking across the water to Skelbo, seeing very little of great interest until the cry of a raptor drew our attention....
....upwards to where an osprey was wheeling above us. It circled....
....time and again, calling repeatedly, then flew off towards the loch where....
....a grey heron was minding its own business in the shallow water of low tide.
The osprey swooped down at it again and again, the heron....
....reacting to each pass by ducking and screeching.
After a dozen or more attacks a seagull decided to get involved - not that this made any difference - until....
....the heron took off and flew a short distance to land near another heron, the osprey then giving both birds equal attention.
While this was going on we had noticed another osprey flying high above, with possibly a third higher still, but as we walked home we saw four above us, possibly parents with two young.
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