Apparently Groppers are everywhere this spring (can't remember where I read that but was somewhere in last couple of days). Even Blackdog had one last night, reeling away on the banks of the burn alongside the folk course (along the "southern extension" of the patch). Suprisingly just my 2nd Blackdog record and the other was years ago.
Thanks to some posh kids getting married, got the day off tomorrow so here's to a bumper long weekend before I am banished to deepest darkest Perthshire, counting Meadow Pipits (yes really!), for much of May.
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Lots of whitethroats and sand martins too by the looks of things. I wonder if it is genuine or just perception. Not seen a house martin yet though.
ReplyDeleteMeadow pipits? GWCT?
Nah not GWCT - The James Hutton Institute (Macaulay until a month ago) at the Glen Finglas experiment. We would survey other birds too but only ever get Mips. Had a Quail singing up the glen a couple of years back, though.
ReplyDeleteBeen enjoying wedding day butterfly hunting up Deeside (Pearl-bordered Frit and Green Hairstreak) so no Blackdog post today.
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