reading darells reports i was really looking forward to visiting kinnordy yesterday but with non stop rain i put it off untill today, when i got up it was very foggy 10 foot visibilaty,i headed anyway hoping for the best, after driving at 20 mph for most the journey the fog started to lift and i saw a buzzard in a field just south of kinnordy
once at kinnordy there was costant bird chatter from the trees ,i headed straight for the feeders as the fog was still lifting on the loch, 1wren, 1robin, chaffinches/blue tits/coal tits.great tits/2 dunnocks/1 great spotted woodpecker,the feeders are not the best place to get pics due to the shaddows from the other trees i managed these
after the feeders i headed to the east hide i counted 22 mute swans plus 6 tufted ducks near by, the sun started to come out and some geese appeared from the west flying in a circle then heading back towards lintrathen
i visited lintrathen on my way home and there was a very large noisy flock present
with the new light i headed back to the gullery hide, it was very quiet a few mallards plus 3 little grebes
this is the most ive seen together
i then headed for the marsh hide on the way i saw blackbirds/1 robin /great tit plus a few bird calls i couldnt identify,the heron was sitting on the perch in front of the hide ,there was a few gadwall swimming about plus one pair of shovelars,
the rooks were also sitting in their nesting trees,
by this time the weather was like a summers day so i decided to try and walk right around the loch heading eastwards,the foliage colours were beutifull hard to display in a pic
just east of the east hide i caught this chap jumping about in the shaddows,
first pic ive managed of him/her at kinnordy and i was very pleased
i then walked right round past the lily pond and up to the field with the square bales in it at this point i couldnt find a way across the fence and it looked like the farmer had put some new fencing up, with this in mind plus the farmers were working on the bales it was a long walk back around,i saw 1 male bullfinch 1 redwing 4 buzzards plus this bird beside the bale fields
i heard but never saw siskins,still no kites though
while i was arranging the pics to post here i came across this pic taken 18/07/06
it was in the gullery hide and made no attemt to fly off when i picked it up,
i held it out the window and it still just sat there, i reached for my camera to try and take a pic when it flew off leaving a large deposit on my hand