Goosey day

Bright clear day with a coldish start but lots of PF Geese moving.

Started at Cullaloe where PF Goose was actually a year tick and was surprised as a bird flew out of the willows and headed straight for me. Thought at first it might be a Sparrowhawk - head on not the best view for ID - until it brushed my shoulder and turned out to be a Woodcock. Woodcock survey this year so hopefully this one was expressing some kind of territoriality. Some Fieldfare are still around here (if not at Hill of Beath). A couple of distand corvids appeared to be Ravens, which aren't uncommon here, but later Inverkeithing produced three anyway - not even a year tick! I remember when you used to have to go looking for Ravens in Fife.

Cullaloe Fieldfares

Inverkeithing - Blue Tit looking for food

Pinkies going north

One of three Ravens

A closer look

Sweet Silver Sound

of the lark (or is it "song"? can't remember). Hill of Beath was bathed in Skylark song this morning, and about time too. Nice mild morning and as well as adding Skylark to the year list (for all four 1km squares too) I also had four Raven over and the first Stock Dove of the year. I'm starting to think Cullaloe may never catch up. Another highlight of the morning was seeing Goldcrest displaying. So much colour hidden away! Tricky to photograph though, as they flirted around in the middle of a tree and I was reduced to manual focus in dim light

Up with the LARK!

Some more of these gorging on new foliage

Raven-tastic - one of four going south

and one going back northalone for some reason

They don't even bother to run when they see me now

Boom! Orange!