Some highlights from a day spent walking in the Pitlochry area included Dippers everywhere (in song on the Tummel,  chasing eachother along storm drains etc), Oystercatchers noisily declaring their presence (What is it about them and house rooves?), evidence of Beaver activity with lots of riverside saplings felled), Winter Aconite and Primrose in flower, two Nuthatches singing and huge numbers of most of the common species exploiting the mild weather to get their breeding seasons underway.