Triple crown

We took advantage of a brief dry spell yesterday afternoon to do Boghall, and were rewarded with a fine peregrine and then a flock of snow buntings in the snow at the back of Caerketton.  Second record of Snobs from the patch, and a fine find for us inland boys. Pleased with that haul we went home to work on some new songs, but better was to come when we looked out of the recording studio window and saw a cracking male goosander haul itself out of the burn that goes through the garden, waddle across the bridge and sit down on the path. It decided that the garden was not suitable for nesting pretty quick though, before we could get any photos. Shame, but a cracking patch and garden tick. 3 new for the year means 75.67%. Bring it!

Hawai

That's right the 5 0 came up this morning riding a big 2m swell. A rush of patch ticks with Great Northern Diver and 3 Snow Buntings the bestest of the bunch. Having spent little time on the patch so far this year, every Blue Tit and Wren was racking up the percentage points. Rock Pipit, Meadow Pipit, a single Bar-tailed Godwit and 3 Common Scoters added to the tick-fest. I even took a photograph of one of the Snow Buntings in some of the prime patch habitat.