Here is our sightings board for the week and it's pretty exciting:

  

It's not every week that we can say we've seen ospreys every day at RSPB Loch Leven. The record for the week is six ospreys but we're hoping we may beat last year's record of thirteen in the coming days and weeks. The last osprey reported here last year was on September 21 so hopefully we'll have plenty more opportunities to see these brilliant birds. 

Other more unusual sightings of the week include a curlew sandpiper, water rails, snipes and black-tailed godwits and plenty of butterflies like these lovely small coppers taken by Paul Ashcroft.