Not sure if I agree or understand the lifting of restrictions in England, but seems we might have some news on Scotland’s progress this week. As it’s my birthday week it would be a great present for me if Nicola said we could go fishing, most easily rule making sport with regard social distancing. Anglers have always had rules with regard how close you can fish near another angler, a sport of etiquette observing normally a 10 yard from each other rule be it competition or pleasure angling. Where I fish most occasions I am at a loch all by myself, almost the same as within our hamlet, could go days without seeing anybody.
I am not saying I am bored with this lockdown, after all the wife can (and does) find me plenty of jobs to do. But to get the rod out & catch a few trout would be great & add to the diet a bit more, after all during this time I have tied enough flies to last for the next ten seasons, just want to see if they work.
The weather lately has not been brilliant (minus 5 mid May is not brilliant), even on days when we have had some sun there has been a very cold Northerly or Northwesterly wind, which has left me with no desire to go sit in my hide & photograph the birds. Yesterday the wind did drop a bit & the sun did come out, so this window of opportunity allowed me to spend an hour in it. Below are a selection of te birds I saw.
Also, even though with no rain there is not a lot of grass for them, the sheep have been very active, another naughty lady has gone & had a baby out of wedlock, though the two lambs seem to be just staying with mum & not interacting like I thought they might. The sheep are getting desperate to be sheared & are constantly rubbing against the power poles & fencing, trying to get rid of their fleeces. Some have been fairly successful & are in various forms of nakedness, which is amusing, also photos below.
Not much more to tell you, hopefully next blog will contain a couple of Rainbow Trout on it?
A proud Mum Dunnock standing watch over her youngster (below).
It was funny watching this baby, it would sit on this log, flutter its wings as though it was bathing, then start to tidy it’s feathers as though they were wet. hasn’t quiet got the hang of washing yet.
A wee Coal Tit, lovely little bird spends all it’s time taking black sunflower seeds out of the feeder & burying them ready for winter, they very seldom find them, hence we get sunflowers appearing in our garden in some really strange places.
Got to admit these are my favourite small bird, this is a Male Siskin, beautiful colours & quite a thug on our feeders, does not take any nonsense from bigger birds.
What garden would not be complete without the show off of the bird world, the Robin, always willing to pose for you, always around when I am filling the feeders, in fact I was a bit late in putting some food out this morning & one was sitting on the feeder as if to say ” come on your late” & it never moved while I filled it & got it’s favourite seed out before any other bird knew food had arrived.
I know this looks like the lamb is dead, but it is just stretched out having a good morning nap. This is in fact the second & newest lamb born, both from Blackfaced Mums. The shot was taken from over 200m away, as neither mum brings the babies anywhere near us, they are very protective.
The other lamb, just a bit more active , but not much.
This is one of the perfect fleeced sheep, just to show you what they can look like fully clothed.
Will not take long to shear this one, a couple of days ago she had rolled onto her back to get rid of a bit more of the wool & I had to go out in the field to help her. She had been there sometime & as I got 3m away she was panicking & righted herself, so much for me being the rescuing hero in front of the wife.
Just like a lot of people at the moment she is in need of a hairdresser.
These last two are of the same sheep just from a different angle, in the one above she does not seem to weird, until you see her below.
Thanks for looking, please feel free to leave some comments, what you would like to see, what you have seen enough of etc. I would appreciate it.