Lots of progress on the repairs to the Tower Pool Path today with a great working volunteer group arriving for the day to spread the last few tons of of dust and fine gravel on the top of the path before it's rolled to make the final surface. Hopefully the new (and much more level) path should be open very soon.
Bird-wise the waders continue to return, lots of Golden Plover on the Low Ground today along with the usual Greenshank, Little Stint and two Curlew Sandpipers. There is however one less Black-Tailed Godwit which made a very tasty lunch for a hunting male Peregrine. We also still have our male Osprey which was perched on a fence post on the far side of the low ground at lunch time. No sign of the Baird's Sandpiper today but the range of birds on the low ground and the havoc caused by the Peregrine won't have helped anyone to find it.
We've also got a couple of slightly unexpected arrivals in the form of four pink-footed geese. Despite some of us (well, me) getting a little bit panicky (we've got some great plans for tracking the new arrivals across the region that really aren't quite ready yet!) these are most likely not the first of the winter birds but instead some of the few that for various reasons didn't migrate in March and stayed in the area all year, similar to the single Whooper Swan that's spent much of the summer on the Loch.