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| Lovely to hear the Willow Warblers are back! |
After a fairly slow start migration is finally gathering pace up here in Aberdeenshire. Today's early morning walk around my local Dalmadilly Ponds produced double-figure Willow Warblers with singing birds it seemed around every corner. Just three Chiffchaff singing now of course well established and a distant drumming Great Spotted Woodpecker was nice to hear. Although I've now recorded House Martin, Swallow and Sand Martin here this year hirundines still remain at a premium, with just a single Swallow noted during today's visit.
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| Lesser Redpoll at Dalmadilly this morning. |
A couple of Blackcaps are also new in, two males but not actually singing. At least five Lesser Redpolls were displaying, a good sign with the species having nested here last year.
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| Common Sandpiper along the River don |
Below the ponds down on the River Don, the first Common Sandpipers have arrived but the surprise of the day occurred as I was about to leave when a Greenland White-Fronted Goose dropped in accompanied by a single Greylag. I'm thinking this particular bird needs to get a move on back to its breeding grounds.
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| The surprise of the day when this rather late Greenland White-Fronted Goose dropped in! |
NEW Scottish Life-List Since Relocating Permanently to Aberdeenshire in October 2020
