First day in the Highlands

In the morning I headed to Sutherland area to walk the dogs on one of their favourite beaches, on the way I saw lots of buzzards roughly about eight of them along with a few Herons flying over and Hooded Crows.

After the beach, I headed to a quiet spot where I usually go that has a good mix of wildlife.

What I saw:
30+ Seals
6 Curlew
male and female Red Breasted Mergansers
6 female Eiders

Lots of Gulls around

1 Cormorant

20+ Oystercatchers

Highland cows with a few youngsters…

and a few others.

After a wile I went onto another patch, that had a lot of Redshank easily 40+, another Heron, a few Curlew, 10+ Shelduck, more Oystercatchers and another Buzzard!

A mixture of phone and SLR photo's below.

 

On the way back there were 50+ Curlews in a field with a random single Starling.

When closer to home, I decided to take a drive a long the Beauly Firth, some nice views of the mountains reflecting on the water and quite a bit of Wigeon about.

After an hour or so of being back home I headed out to see if the Dippers were out, no signs for about an hour and then on my way back one showed and I managed to get a few shots. Hopefully get a few more over the next two weeks, but for some reason they only like to come out once when I'm here and then never see them again for the whole time! 

A few river shots early evening time...

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Second day in the Highlands

Early morning, before leaving saw a few Greenfinch, haven’t seen any for a wile and I don’t get any in the garden back at home.

Lossiemouth area:

300+ Wigeon
30+ Redshank

20+ Greater Black Backed Gulls

1 Curlew

2 Turnstone

40+ Oystercatchers

50+ Herring Gulls

As well, saw a few more Buzzards… 

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Spring :)