The last couple of weeks have been a non eventful time within our community, nothing much going on. The fact is the busy time is on it’s way.
The International bi-annual Scout Jamboree happens at Blair Castle commencing tomorrow, hundreds of Scouts from all over the world arrive & have the time of their lives. Games, activities campfires with sing a long’s, you name it they do it. The village & Pitlochry are full of groups wandering around in different styles of uniforms, initially anyway looking very smart, but going downhill as the fortnight progresses. Hope to get some shots for you of all that happens, but can be a bit tricky taking shots of youngsters in this day & age, we shall see.
Meanwhile in the garden we have at least 4 Red Squirrels wondering about, most of the time fighting each other over food & territory. But as you can see from the first shot I think these two are related & for a while tolerate each other on the feeders.
One Red has become particularly tame & as from the next three shots allows me to get within 5 yards of it. I just love the agility of them, it stayed in that downward position on the tree, not sure if it was safe to come & feed with me that close or not. Then sat on the cross support for the feeders wondering the same. Before eventually going down & sticking it’s nose into the bird seed, which if you enlarge the third image you will note just how much didn’t go in it’s mouth.
The last shot is of one of my bird boxes taken over by Wasp’s, not content with filling the inside with their nest they have decided to insulate the outside of the box as well. Though I am not a lover of Wasp’s (in fact allergic to their sting) , you have just got to admire the structure & beauty of their nest building skills.
