Apr 122012
 
Long Weekend in the Highlands - 12th April 2012

This years trip to the Scottish Highlands certainly had a wintery feel about it.   We had heavy over night snow Thursday, Friday & Saturday nights and a light sprinkling Sunday night with Monday being a superb morning, just as we were leaving. Oh well as they say. Nevertheless, the weather did not deter us and we managed to see all the specialities, with the exception of Sea Eagle & Ptarmigan. The weather was simply against us for these two species. We did have plenty of sunshine in the lower Glens but at Monroe altitudes there was persistent snow cloud […]

Apr 172011
 
Scotland - The Highlands & Speyside - Thurs 14th April - Sun 17th April 2011

A superb few days in one of my favourite places in the UK. During our 4 days we saw all the specialities. Our planning worked wonders again and we even managed 2 crossbill species. On 14th arriving at Loch Garten around 2pm, we very quickly encountered our first Crested Tits on our usual walk around the Loch. The pair of Ospreys were showing at the RSPB Centre and the female had laid her first egg early in the morning, so all was well. We then went to our nicknamed spot “Crossbill Corner” and sure enough we had 5 Scottish Crossbill […]

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