Seal pup!

Great start 

 The first seal pup was a bit early this year, but it's doing well. Several other females in the area about to pop. Jill was accompanied by the lovely Sarah and her daughter.

The crop field at Melby is still busy but bird numbers are dropping. Still a few brambling and chaffinches.

We also watched a redwing being teased by a starling.

Today Rob wasn't feeling great so stayed home while ,Jill went shopping as we have a guest this week.. while I'm n town, need broke of some waxwings and ,Jill loves them so she went to see. Another birdwatcher was there and he had not seen them , but, he had found a really showy barred warbler. Thanks Andy, it was brilliant!

What a showy peerie cracker.

Then to top it off, a lovely sunset 

Cracking PA day

 The weather was changeable, just how Mark likes it, so for PA day we got out and went to Heylor and Eshaness for a bit.

After all the rain, the waterfalls coming off Ronas Hill , even from a distant were special.

Eshaness was pretty special.

It was terrific

Today was less windy and actually got quite sunny. We checked out the crop field at Melby again. Still busy,?

The great Northern divers are coming back for winter

And although we regularly see chiff chaff, today we had lots,but they were mostly Siberian at different locations.

There was a stunning sunset