Ayrshire+ Photographs

Gamebird family pictures today:

Although it has beautiful colours, the Pheasant, to me, is just a loud-mouthed showoff with an unpleasant voice!

In common with most females, his missus is quieter and much more pleasant. (I’m trying to earn brownie points!)

Altough this particular one has a very hard eye.

Whereas the Red-legged Partridge is a much more refined bird!!

I don’t know what happened, but I did post last night and it appeared - then it disappeared. Possibly a reset of my sql database? However here it is, retyped as closely as I can remember!

I know this is only a UK Robin, but the colour set against the white of the branches and the blue of the sky meant I just had to take a photograph.

Today’s photographs are a little bit blurred - I was at maximum zoom with the big lens and even though it seemed to be going quite slowly, this Red Kite was actually travelling fairly quickly.

More bird photographs from Ken-Dee Marshes; this time of the Pied Flycatcher. These little males frequently have more than one nest on the go at the one time, but they do catch food for all of their own. However this little fellow seemed to only have one nest in action.

Although the third photograph isn’t as clear as I’d have liked, I posted it since it is the female returning to her nest in the box and getting a sighting of that is much more difficult.

Today was absolutely superb - in weather, scenery and birding. We went outside Ayrshire again into Dumfries and Galloway to visit the RSPB reserve at Ken-Dee Marshes and two general pictures are below.

On the way there we stopped and I bumped into a friend, Catriona McPherson, (actually she said hello to me since I hadn’t noticed her - blame my age!) from some years ago in the Compass Club (the Ayr Amateur Dramatic Group I used to do lighting for). What I didn’t know was that she’s now a published author so I’m giving her an unasked (and unpaid) for plug on my site - what are friends for?