Scone Palace

Scone Palace was great afternoon out, despite the lack of benches on the estate,  our main reason for going was to see the Snowdrops, but also knew that there was a "Company" of Hawfinches (yes, that's the collective noun for them!) in the grounds and they didn't fail us, we saw four but up to 40 had been reported. They were staying very high in the trees though, this female posed in the sun;

while this male was awkwardly hiding behind branches;

The snowdrops were magnificent;

Going back to birds it was a good day, with a Treecreeper giving me a very shady photo opportunity;

There were loads of other birds, but no photos I'm afraid; Greenfinch, Blue Tit, Great Tit, Coal Tit, Nuthatch, Song Thrush and a brilliant fly through, at a rate of knots, by a sparrow hawk with some poor creature in its talons, had no chance to see what it was though, probably a bird!

The grounds has resident domestic Peacocks and Peahens, it would be churlish not to photograph any of them so I chose this Leucistic Peacock.