Spent the afternoon dodging the snow showers in Arbroath. One of the highlights was a walk along the clifftop path (below) which was made all the more dramatic by the sudden squalls blowing in from the North Sea. Birding highlights there were a male Kestrel, quite a pure-looking Rock Dove and a flock of around 30 Curlews, all battling with the wind. Earlier, stopped off at Errol to look at the reedbeds there. The landscape thereabouts is fanastic - more like the Lincolnshire fenland or the Hungarian puzta than anywhere else in Scotland! Other highlights today included plenty of inland Curlews and Oystercatchers, a possible White tailed Eagle (in the middle of a ploughed field), a possible Black Grouse (on a fence post) and many hundreds of (presumably pink footed) geese in fields next to the A90.
Friday, March 21, 2008
"The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls".
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