We walked along the coast path to the northeast of Golspie this morning looking for bird life along the shore - to be very much disappointed, seeing some gulls, one oystercatcher, just three cormorants instead of the usual couple of dozen, and....
....a pair of rather wary merganser. We assume that the rest are off on nesting duties.
With the weather so dull we didn't expect to see much insect life beyond a few bumblebees, flies and hover flies but were surprised to spot, and fail to photograph, a painted lady. Why an incomer painted lady should be so much more resilient to the weather than the locals is a bit of a mystery to me.
So, disappointed, we walked back to the car through the Dunrobin Castle woods rather than along the shore, to be overwhelmed by the brilliance of the greens of the deciduous trees and the chorus of bird song - blackbird, song thrush, robin, wren, chaffinch, willow warbler, chiffchaff and, for a change, a spotted flycatcher.
We returned to a rabbit-less garden which, yesterday evening, had a new and very welcome visitor....
....a great spotted woodpecker attracted to the peanuts.
This is a visitor whom we'd love to see frequently.
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