Yellowhammers

Yes, this is a Highland sky, a cloudless brilliant blue sky this morning with hardly a breath of wind and spring beginning to show in the early flowers in the hedgerows - dandelion, daisy, lesser celandine and still plenty of snowdrops.

This is the road up to Golspie Tower where another yellow flower is in bloom, on the gorse; and, as if to match it, the yellowest of our small birds is to be seen here in abundance. This is, of course, the....

....yellowhammer.

Our attention was drawn to them by this male, sitting alone on the top of  prominent gorse branch but he was soon joined by....

....two others which, when we approached uncomfortably close, flew off to join....

....yet more in a nearby tree.

We have no idea what is so special for the yellowhammers about this quarter-mile stretch of road. They're almost always here, winter and summer, yet we don't see them elsewhere and, disappointingly, they have never visited our garden.