A week ago

I'm still a bit behind with the blog so it'll be a quick run through these and then a catch up in the next post. The WT Eagles are showing well at times but they can be hard to see on some days.

The nesting birds on the shore are doing well with the Oystercatcher and Ringed Plover sitting tight.

There are a few Early Purple Orchids to be seen.

There are a few Eider around but most of them are keeping out of the way so it's nice to get them close.

We have picked up the occasional Whinchat but there doesn't seem to be too many around at the moment. The Golden Eagles are performing well but the Adders seem to be keeping a low profile. There have been quite a few sightings of Crossbill but you don't see them in the deciduous trees very often.

The last of the summer plumaged Great Northern Divers will probably be away at the end of May so enjoy then while you can.

Short and sweet.

Serious internet problems are holding things up but I'll do my best to keep things up to date. It's taking all my time to upload the photos and the text doesn't save when the connection drops out so it will be short and sweet until it's fixed.
Sunday was one of those nice days where the sightings came in clumps. The start of the day gave us the usual array of GN Divers and while having a look at the WT Eagle we had three Golden Eagle go over the top.

That was the extent of the photographs for the day as the rest of them were murdered with heat haze! Cracking views of Hen Harrier, Whinchat, Adder, a few Whimbrel, Golden Plover and a Black-tailed Godwit were the pick of the bunch for the rest of the day.

Shop Lady was delighted to see the return of a Northern Wheatear out front of the shop on Tuesday.

Short-eared Owl, a couple of juvenile Stonechat and Great Northern Diver with a fish gave us a good start to the day.

Two Golden Eagle sitting together were nice to see as was a reasonably close view of a male Hen Harrier.

A bit of added colour to the day was this Early Purple Orchid.

Righting a Sheep that had got stuck on it's back got us a bit closer to some Mountain Hares...

...and we caught up with three Black-tailed Godwit too.