The Scottish Highlands for a special bird

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Apr 042022
 
The Scottish Highlands for a special bird

I decided to spend a few days in Scotland photographing Crested Tit with my good friend and Pro Photographer Pete Walkden. (https://www.petewalkden.co.uk). Highly recommended.. I had a marvellous time as always, and the weather couldn’t have been better. Heavy snow in the forest, some sunshine and blue skies, making conditions ideal.   I also spent sometime birding the coast around my base at Nairn, and managed to find the overwintering drake King Eider, small numbers of Long-tailed Duck, an adult Iceland Gull, 46 Scaup, Hooded Crow and a scattering of common waders.   At the Crested Tit site I managed […]

Long Weekend in the Highlands – 12th April 2012

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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 […]

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