We have been really busy the last few weeks with decorating, some friends coming to stay and recovering from our trip to New York.
Firstly the trip to New York and Niagara wasn't a birding trip, so no binoculars or long lens on the camera, but we did add 11 new species to our bird list! Which was very nice.
Since then we haven't been got out much, we did manage a couple of hours at Portmoak Moss near Scotlandwell, where we heard loads of birds, but saw very few. The only one to trouble the camera was this Buzzard;
We took our friends Wendy & Tim to Loch of the Lowes while the were here, we had good views of the two Ospreys, fingers crossed they are successful this year and raise a chick to maturity. 🤞
We started though with a nice Red Squirrel sighting on the short woodland walk before going to the visitor centre.
Disappointingly all off the seed feeders had been removed from by the picture window in the visitor centre as they had seen evidence of Trichomonosis, so they had been removed to hopefully restrict the spread of the disease.
Being a Sunday, which we normally avoid, the reserve was busy and the hides were full with photographers who had set up camp in the hope of getting good shots of the Ospreys. Perhaps on a weekend the SWT should think about time limiting access to the hides. 😏
When we eventually got into a hide later in the day it was pretty quiet, with Great crested grebe and Goldeneye showing well.
The Osprey weren't very active, so I took a shot of one on the nest, obviously even with the 500mm lens, it's still pretty distant.
On the way home we popped into the RSPB Loch Leven reserve, just to check for more Red Squirrels in the woodland and we were lucky again.
