We woke to another glorious morning with the promise of sunshine, warmer temperatures and light winds, a day which the small birds....
....would be determined to exploit. Setting off from the house I saw all the usual birds drawn in by the promise of a free breakfast - siskin, goldfinch, chaffinch, dunnock, blackbird and robin, blue, coal, great and, to my joy....
....the first long-tailed tits in ages. Sadly I only saw three when I would have hoped to see them going round in the usual flocks of eight or so.
I followed one of my favourite walks through an area of pine plantation burned by the fire of ten years ago where wrens, song thrushes and chiff-chaffs were singing, along with this small bird which I have difficulty in identifying.
The track I followed was the forestry version of a cul-de-sac, but it ends with this view across Loch Fleet towards the highlands beyond Bonar Bridge, still blanketed with snow.
To make my day, on the way back the verges had warmed enough to draw out....
....two peacock butterflies, the first butterflies we've seen since March 20th.
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