Lovely guests

 We are so lucky with our guests. We have had some amazing folk staying with us. It makes all our hardwork so worth it. We had our first Norwegian and Irish guests and we are still getting 10 out of 10's. After breakfast we decided to go and see the Crane again. It was much further away and flew just as we arrived so we  only saw it as it flew over the car. It went high and flew along the a Weisdale valley, as it had been feeding well we weren't surprised. Today there was one on Orkney - maybe the same one?

We went to see the King Eider in Lerwick but the sea was choppy so it was hard to pick out and it was cold so we gave up. We did have  nice common sandpipers on the way home.  Not great photos as they didn't stay put very long.

Today, after some housework and making up the rooms, we popped out to our patch. Melby was lovely. It's good to see Sanderlings and a Common Tern back. Dunlin were getting frisky and the Great Northern Diver came over to be nosy. It's in beautiful summer plumage now 

Did have bit of time before tonight's guests from a Seattle arrived,  a wee bit of gardening in the cold frame 

Rings

 We snuck in a short patch watch at Melby yesterday before our guests arrived. The weather was lovely but the tide was out a long way so the birds weren't close. It was busy though with over 20 purple sandpipers, our first spring dunlins and a colour ringed knot.

We actually felt quite sorry for it. We will look into information on it.

Ouf friendly Grouse was there too.

Today, we managed to squeeze in another spring Skerries trip. Not that we are obsessed or anything!

Bit busier today with 3 sand martins, 1 swallow, 8 chiffchaffs, 1 collared dove, 6 GT northern divers, 1 tree pipit, 2 common sandpipers

, 1 in flight

It was a lovely day and we stopped by at Kergord to find a common crane that had been spotted.

Cracking couple of days