10th
April 2017 (Monday)
.... 08.00 It is a beautiful, “bright
and breezy” morning, though definitely cooler;
a nice day for a run up to Perthshire, and the
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| The Loch of Lowes Ospreys. |
‘Loch o’ Lowes’. The camera is organised, and, I think, so am
I. Orf to have a cuppa..... enjoy your
day whatever you do.
21.00 Jim and I had a great ‘day out’ at the Loch
of the Lowes.... four hours travelling there and back, and three and a half
hours at the Reserve; the other half
hour was spent having coffee/ tea in a cafe in Dunkeld. There was a diversion between Cupar and
Newburgh, and serious road works at Perth, which added to the travelling time
.... but not catastrophically. The traffic
was not too heavy at all ... except at the Pert road works.
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| Red Squirrel. |
Jim
‘moored up’ in the SWT Car Park, and we then walked the 150 metres to the Information
Centre and the Bird Hides. The Centre
wasn’t too busy, by that I mean it wasn’t crowded, just comfortably busy, and
we were able to take photographs of the birds, and a Red Squirrel, feeding on
the feeders; there was a lot of activity, and a good
selection of birds.... including a Pheasant.
I browsed the info and found that Swallows had been seen here on the 7th
March. I thought I glimpsed a Swallow
the other day when I was sitting in the Hutte, but it was only a fleeting
sighting so I wasn’t certain, but I think that it probably was a Swallow.
The
Osprey nest is easy to see from the hides, though it was at the limit of range for
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| Great Spotted Woodpecker. |
my lens; nonetheless I got some decent pictures,
albeit distant, of Ospreys on their nest.
She was sitting, on two eggs, and he dropped in a couple of times when
we were in the hide (an hour and a half).
There is an active beaver colony nearby;
the bark had been chomped off a
tree near the hide, and a complete tree had been ‘dropped’ at the edge of the
loch about 200 metres away. The lassie at the desk made us coffee, and we
sat and had lunch outside in the sun.
The
journey home was pleasant, and we arrived back in the ‘Royal Burgh’ about
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| A bendy Fife road, near Strathmiglo. |
16.20,
after a really good ‘day out’. I must
admit that I am tired tonight, and will have a couple of Paracetemol with my
Horlicks to help me have a good deep sleep.
Photographs
: Top – The Ospreys at the nest, Next – Red Squirrel, Next m- Great Spotted
Woodpecker, and Bottom – a bendy Fife Road hear Strathmiglo; you can just make
out the Lomond Hills through the trees.
