Having to go back to Blair Atholl to pick up my car, I took the opportunity to do some birdwatching around Dunkeld. Birds around the town centre included Black-headed Gull, Common Gull, Oystercatcher (and a single Lesser Black-backed Gull) all looking like they were intending to nest on the shingle islands in the Tay, two pairs of Common Gulls incongruously perched in trees upstream from the bridge, at least 20 active nests in the rookery on Stanley Hill, and groups of 29 and six Fallow Deer in fields near Blairgowrie Road. At Loch of the Lowes, highlights consisted of Osprey, Red Squirrel, Yellowhammer, singing Chiffchaff, four Sand Martins attempting to feed over the loch in single-figure temperatures and a pair of Teal.