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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JWN Andrewes" data-source="post: 3704168" data-attributes="member: 7131">April 5th: part IWell rested after a good night’s sleep (we were staying in one of the motel rooms at High Grange at the south end of Aviemore. We’d stayed at one of the self catering chalets back in 2015 and found it a well run, well priced outfit, with the benefit of a very nice all you can eat pizza restaurant on site which we had attacked without mercy the night before) we headed off out for breakfast at Glenmore, conveniently situated en-route to Cairngorm, stopping on the way to check out Loch Morlich before it was blighted by ripples. Here we instantly struck pay dirt, with a pair of Black-throated Divers way across the far side from the first car park. Good scope views were enjoyed, all the more so by me now I knew wasn’t going to have to fit in a trip up to Lochindorb! We spent a while on them before tearing ourselves away, and from the next car park we were treated to even more distant views of a pair of Red-throated Divers, and then, as we were back in the car and I was about to reverse out, Arch called “Crested Tit”. Engine off, window down, and sure enough, in the scrappy lakeside trees first one, then a second, Crestie, studiously working the branches at eye level. I’ll not knock seeing them on feeders, but there’s something undeniable sweeter about these more organic encounters. Anyway, nearly nine, café’s about to open, so let’s go….</blockquote>

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