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mick taylor22 Sep 2020
Had some excellent autumnal mornings. Even this morning, which was calm and misty, was great. Saw a buzzard being mobbed by two cartoon crows - interesting photo. And HUGE flicks of linnet and goldfinch - over 500 perched on wires and taking it in turns to feed of rapeseed.
Barley has been harvested, so roe deer moving about more visibly. The farmer has sold up (rumour is for over £6 mill) and doing dairy so don’t know how this will impact wildlife. Big flock of gills following the plough. And seem skeins if punk feet every morning, other than this morning when I could only hear them.
Do you know Kinghorn in Fife? We were sitting eating our fish suppers at the Carousel car park the other night and the gannets were feeding. Some excellent displays of synchronised diving. This is also a great spot for watching dolphins, porpoises and whales.
And last week at Croy beach in Ayrshire we saw swans surfing! Never seen this behaviour before.
was lucky to see two noisy skeins flying south over summits of Carn a' Chlamain and Cairn of Claise last week - presumably pink-footed geese wintering in east scotland?
