Garden time

 Sun was shining today so Jill finally got to do some path. It's been so wet it hasn't been the winter for it . It was pretty chilly though.

Rob has been working on the heating company issues still and doing the paperwork for our trip down South as we have to submit a form for the RAC. The car seems fine.

Late afternoon Jill went down to the loch to check on a camera trap that is down there.  Will check the footage to see what's on it but had a quick look. One of the nighttime bits is an otter right up against the camera!. Walking back there was  an amazing sunset.

Got back home to a lovely starling murmuration.

Beautiful full moon

Hare brained

 Yesterday  Sarah , and her daughter came over to go and find some hares. The weather was perfect for it, if a bit chilly, the sun was shining so the hares were all sat out enjoying the nice sun. As Shetland Mountain hares use old rabbit burrows so sometimes you just see the ears.

We visited Melby and Norby beaches too. It was a lovely day.

Today, we popped over to Unst to look for the Bonapartes Gull that has been around for a few days. We hoped to find the Kumleins/Thayer's gull that we missed in January but it hadn't been around for a couple of weeks. Most think, due to its size, that it's a Thayer's but they are difficult to split.

There was still a large flock of Long tailed ducks.

We only briefly had the Bonapartes Gull before the weather really closed in.

Bressay

 Jill picked up Mark for PA day. It was an amazing sunny day so we had a run over to Bressay. It's not a big island but so beautiful. As it was the first day actually out of the house for a while, we took it easy.. Lerwick was looking lovely and had a drive around.

The evening stayed clear. It was a stunning moon and Jupiter was clear as well.

Unplanned trip

 Due to the issues with the car and the RAC being totally obtuse ( and because Jim's garage had told the RAC they had collected the car when they hadn't), we did a last minute unplanned trip to Aberdeen to drop the car off to the garage. They needed it for 3 days so we decided to make the most of it. Yay! 

The crossing was the calmest ever.

Aviemore and surrounds didn't disappoint.

Plenty of woodland birds.

Then a nice run up to one of our favourite spots, Findhorn Valley.

Then some squirrels and friends

The car was finished early but luckily we checked thoroughly as they had not found some of the electrical faults. We swapped cars over , did a bit of shopping and headed for the ferry. Another calm trip

Today was Jill's birthday- we chilled! What a nice wee trip.