Divit Drought

Still no sign of Chiffchaff nor Sand Martin in the Divit (nor Osprey), although all have been spotted in the Kingdom. Irritating wind in the morning became howling gale by lunchtime. 9.5 degrees showed on my car thermometer and it was still freezing. Kittiwake in the harbour. Actually IN the harbour. Brutal watching conditions and I could only last out half an hour, like this morning.

AM saw a couple of Chaffinch, a Pied Wag and a Mipit North and 8 Siskins south (can't blame them).

Worse than discovering my camera was on ISO 1600 and I had blown out some kice Kittiwake shots, I discovered that the viewing screen was cracked. Not a good lunchtime.

Bonus shot from yesterday

Farmland Frolics

Made a safari into the wilds of Inverkeithing this lunchtime, finding a new route out of the trees north of Prestonhill Quarry and into open fields of partly ploughed stubble with some nice loose hedging cutting across. Still no sign of any Pheasants, which I find a bit surprising, but a lovely potpourri of wee seed-munchers, as featured below. Tree Sparrow brings up 64 for the Divit and 81 for Fife (that is, NT18/19). Was hard to tell how many Tree Sparrows (or anything) there were because I was stalking them along the line of hedge they were in. A small handful each of Yellowhammer, Reed Bunting and tree Sparrow though (also Chaffinch and Great/Blue Tits).

Song wars as Great Tits compete for space

Winter farmland potpourri

Hello, little feller

+Tree Sparrow => 64, 51% of target