Firstly a Happy New Year to anyone reading this!
After a very busy end to the year and start to this one, we finally manage to get out for a couple of hours and drove up to Burleigh Sands on Loch Leven. There weren't many photo opportunities but we started the year list (apart from the few we've had in the garden) with a male Bullfinch:
In the adjacent tree was a Goldcrest, but it just wouldn't stop still long enough for me to get a shot before it flew off, but still a great start and we'd only been walking a couple of minutes.
Then it went quiet as we walked to the hide. There were plenty of Tufted Duck on the loch as usual, also loads of Goldeneye, this is as close as they got though:
From the hide, there were plenty of Gulls on the scrape (Black-headed, Herring & Lesser Black-backed) plus a pair of Goosander. The highlight though was a Kingfisher shooting past twice, way to fast for me to even pick the camera up, so I didn't try, just enjoyed the little blue missile zooming through.
It was very cold in the hide, so we didn't stay too long, we headed back and went for a stroll through the woods past the car park. On the way we picked up a 'Water' Robin:
and a Dunnock:
We saw 21 species there in total and with an unsuccessful attempt at Whale watching the following day (Saturday) we added Eide, Oystercatcher & Turnstone, bringing us to 33 so far for the year.
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