We're enjoying another beautiful Highland day today, not as sunny perhaps as yesterday but, after the thermometer dropped to -3C last night, warmer and with hardly a breath of wind. We spent the morning walking along the coast path to the north of Dunrobin Castle, passing though the mature woodland in the foreground of this picture which has recently seen....
....the attentions of a team who, with their heavy machinery, have spent a couple of weeks felling many of the larger trees and almost clearing the ground under those remaining. We have watched this and have been mourning the apparent destruction of the habitat until today when, with the machines gone, the birds have moved back in - and they seemed thrilled with the open-ness of the area. More importantly, perhaps, as well as blackbirds, chaffinches and robins, we encountered no less than....
....six song thrushes.
The reason I remark on this is that we've seen hardly any thrushes in ages. In fact we were quite excited to hear one singing, almost a month ago, in some woodland at Backies, and haven't seen or heard one since.
Most of today's six were very busy on the churned-up ground looking for food but one was up in the canopy singing, and a glorious sound it was.
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