Today's walk started in Kincraig and finished in Aviemore with detours to Loch Insh, Lochs Beag and Alvie, and the Bogach. Some interesting sightings were as follows:

100 Pink-footed Geese near Forteviot

A Raven at Dalnaspidal

Fifty Jackdaws, twenty Rooks and thirty Starlings in fields at Ballachroan

20 Rooks in trees at Kingussie station

A Red Squirrel in gardens at Kincraig

Forty-one Mallards, two Mute Swans, two Teal and a Goldeneye at the north east end of Loch Insh

A Moorhen, a Kingfisher, a Goosander and a Goldeneye on the Spey at Kincraig

Seventy Redwings at The Brae, Kincraig, 50 in Speybank, 60 at Kinrara and smaller numbers at other sites.

A loose flock of birds consisting of 30 Redwing, a Fieldfare, five Chaffinches, ten Blackbirds, two Great-spotted Woodpeckers, two Blue Tits, two Great Tits, a Coal Tit and a Robin moving through bushes between Dalraddy Moor and the chalet park

A Meadow Pipit on Dalraddy Moor with 40 Jackdaws heading west overhead

Five Goldeneye (a male and four brownheads), two pairs of Wigeon and a pair of Mallard on Loch Beag

A flotilla of seven Goldeneye (all brownheads) on Loch Alvie

A female Bullfinch behind Kinrara Croft

Two Orange Peel Fungus cups on the path near the railway viaduct over the Allt Dibheach

A party of at least four Long-tailed Tits near the Bogach Cottage

A Tufted Duck on the Bogach 

A Sparrowhawk being mobbed by a crow over Aviemore