Leven Siskin ....
2nd
April 2016 (Saturday)
10.00 .... and we have a lovely
morning, calm and warm.... there’s only a breath of wind, from the Southerly
direction, however there is a thin layer of high cloud all over the sky,
that is filtering the strength out of
the sun,... but .. it looks like being a
nice Spring day; a great day for doing
stuff.
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| Elie beach this morning |
I
had a great night’s sleep, not waking up until ‘Wallace and Gromit’ fired up at
06.50..... quarter of an hour after
sunrise, so I missed that, though I doubt if it would have been visible
anyway. I will take a quick walk down
to the beach after this update to see what’s happening, then Iain and I are
going along to Leven to visit Janet and Lesley. Lesley has Siskins feeding in her
garden!
22.30 We went along to Leven, had a cuppa with
my sister, Janet, and her daughter Lesley, then set up the cameras to
photograph the Siskins. Iain got
photographs of Siskins and Goldfinches, I got one photo of the perch. The perch was a small branch taped onto one
of my walking poles,(a Komperdell), so it was a ‘classy’ perch....
u
nfortunately the Siskins didn’t think much of it. I did get photographs of Siskins, and
Goldfinches flying around it, when they came down to feed... perhaps the
‘perch’ was just a little bit ‘new’ for them.
Anyway Lesley sent me a photo she had taken earlier so I will use that.
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| Siskin |
Back
at Ivy we set up the cameras to get some photos of “Blob” and Co..... now I
discover that there’s a problem with card, that needs to be ‘repaired: that will have to be scanned and ‘sorted’
later tonight. The plan is to set up
the cameras, and take some pictures of “Blob” and Co tomorrow morning. The weather isn’t great for first thing
tomorrow morning, with
an East wind and light rain forecast... but, it is supposed
to be ‘bright and sunny’ later.
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| Earlsferry beach |
The
villages are busy tonight .... it must be the start of the ‘Easter break’ for
another part of the country. It’s good,
to have the villages ‘alive’ again .... and to hear the sound of ‘young’ voices
in the background: there’s a serious
shortage of ‘young voices’ in ‘The Ferry’ over the winter period.
If
it is raining first thing in the morning, I shall have nice ‘sleep in’ ....
I’ve been feeling ‘one degree under’ today, and a good, long, rest won’t go
amiss. The wind, being from the southeast, explains
the ‘one degree under’ feeling..... as you all know by now, I blame the east
wind for everything.
Photographs
: Top – Elie beach, Middle – Siskin (Courtesy Lesley) and Bottom- The Ferry
beach.
