Up north

Just returned from a few days up on the west coast. Sometimes, you forget that this country is magnificient!

Ok, so the weather can be a bit dodgy, but a couple of days of good company, several beers and superb scenery is very uplifting. Didn't do a lot of birding due to persistent horizontal snow showers, but it's always good to see Black Guillemots & Ravens as well as see my first Greenshank of the year (11 of them in fact) at the head of a sea loch.

"What??"

Back to reality with a bang though. Bird flu!! Hopefully there will be a few birds still alive when I get back to the Reserve tomorrow. Judging by the mass hysteria though, we're all doomed...