A sunny walk from Callander to Strathyre Forest Resort today produced the following:
Two Common Frogs and one clump of spawn in a small pool in Coilhallan Woods.
A pair of Bullfinches near Kilmahog.
A singing Dipper and a pair of Grey Wagtails at the Falls of Leny.
A Chaffinch attacking its reflection in the mirror of a car parked in the Ben Ledi walkers’ car park.
A pair of Goosanders on the river at Coireachrombie.
Eight Canada Geese and two Goosanders at the south end of Loch Lubnaig.
A Nuthatch calling at Creag an t-Sionnaich.
The full bird list for the walk was: Canada Goose, Mallard, Goosander, Buzzard, Woodpigeon, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Magpie, Jackdaw, Carrion Crow, Goldcrest, Blue Tit, Great Tit, Coal Tit, Long-tailed Tit, Nuthatch, Wren, Dipper, Blackbird, Song Thrush, Robin, Dunnock, House Sparrow, Grey Wagtail, Pied Wagtail, Chaffinch, Bullfinch, Greenfinch and Goldfinch (28 species).
Later, three Green Sandpipers were showing well at the Causeway Hide, Baron's Haugh (with 12 Whooper Swans there also, as well as flowering Lesser Celandine and Coltsfoot).