Apoligies for the lack of blogging. What a fantastic day! The morning started well with a peregrine perching near the flood, and plenty of the usual buzzards and kestrels. Though even better than all that, in my opinion, was the female smew that showed well on the loch, it even got out of the water to preen. The bay was full with over 250 whooper swans and a mixture of pink footed and greylag geese, so as you can imagine the noise was quite something. All of the usual ducks and great crested grebes were also out on the loch. The feeders were busy with tits, finches and a few very handsome male tree sparrows. We also had reports of 5 waxwings in the carpark before lunch time today. That is all for this week, check the blog next week for all of the latest news.