timwootton
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Thanks for the words regarding the greylags - one of those pieces I think. Perhaps I'd have felt differently had I not had the break from whilst it was still in progress.
We've had a real taste of spring up here over the past three or four days; bright sunshine, rooks pruning the sycamores, oystercatchers piping merrily from dawn til past dusk and greylags - a - sh@ggin'. Always a bit strange to watch the whoopers and long-tailed ducks courting and displaying so far (geographicaly) from the places they will eventually settle down to the real thing.
Took an hour and half off to locate a few pintails - not common up here although they do also breed) - sneaked down to the Loch of Brockan, totally unnoticed by everything around - well, except the fifty greylags, 400 common gulls 15 pintails, 26 teal and a hundred wigeon - oh about 60 lapwings decided to join the aerial display too, but they all settled back down fairly quickly allowing me a very bright and very chilly drawing session. Deceptive popping out to the garden and having warm sun on your back and then going out to the countryside where the chill factor makes sitting still a trifle uncomfortable. Worth it though!
We've had a real taste of spring up here over the past three or four days; bright sunshine, rooks pruning the sycamores, oystercatchers piping merrily from dawn til past dusk and greylags - a - sh@ggin'. Always a bit strange to watch the whoopers and long-tailed ducks courting and displaying so far (geographicaly) from the places they will eventually settle down to the real thing.
Took an hour and half off to locate a few pintails - not common up here although they do also breed) - sneaked down to the Loch of Brockan, totally unnoticed by everything around - well, except the fifty greylags, 400 common gulls 15 pintails, 26 teal and a hundred wigeon - oh about 60 lapwings decided to join the aerial display too, but they all settled back down fairly quickly allowing me a very bright and very chilly drawing session. Deceptive popping out to the garden and having warm sun on your back and then going out to the countryside where the chill factor makes sitting still a trifle uncomfortable. Worth it though!
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