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The Newsletter of the Highland Local Group Issue 87 March 2015 Highland Birds The newsletter of the Highland Local Group Issue 87 March 2015 Inverness Castle & River Ness © Steve Austin Andy Hay (rspb Andy In this issue… Indoor reports: Caribbean Capers • 40yrs of Bird Ringing Field trip reports: Cromarty Firth • Christmas Birding • New Year bird count • North Kessock to Tollie • - images.com) Future trips: In search of Divers again • Loch Ruthven & Strathdearn • Assynt • Logie Steading walk & Lochindorb • Banff coast & Troup Head Keith and Rosie are also leading the walk at Logie Editorial Steading on Thursday 7th May. Hopefully there will be some interesting woodland species to see. In the afternoon we will look for Black-throated Divers and Already it’s time for our last Newsletter moorland species at Lochindorb. Meet at the Retail Park at 09.30, or Nairn Bus Station at 10.00. of the season and, as usual, included Contact: Keith and Rosie on 01997 421193 below is your official notification for our AGM in April. On Saturday 13th June we intend to take a boat trip from MacDuff to Troup Head RSPB reserve. Places are Spring is well on the way now. It’s a lovely time of year limited and will be allocated on a first-come first-served and we look forward to some settled weather for getting basis. The cost of the boat will be approximately £25. out and listening to the dawn chorus again. Contact Keith on 01997 421193, or email [email protected] if you wish to come. Many thanks again for all the contributions to the Keith Barnes Newsletter, and also to the NSRO for their help in the set-up and printing of it. Note: that the drawings are courtesy of RSPB Publishing Resources. Ed From your group leader Spring is in the air, the birds are singing Official Notification and all looking very smart in their AGM breeding plumage, but there is something missing at our house, where RSPB Highland Local Group are all the Rooks? Thursday 23 April 2015 – 19.30 I used to grumble at my daily task of lifting all the twigs Fraser park Bowling Club dropped by over ambitious rooks but, strange to say, l MacEwen Drive, Inverness am missing their daily flight over the house. All the nests have gone from the nearby trees – it must have been the gales in February, and the rooks have chosen to start again further along the road and fly the other way for their nesting materials; traitors! John on the other hand is happy about this, mainly because while l was Field trips collecting twigs his task was to protect the garden feeders with chicken wire. March – June 2015 The feeding station for red kites at Tollie has been up and running since March 2010, but still it is not attracting The trip on Saturday 28th March, led by many kites – generally this year between 4 & 6, plus 4 Keith and Rosie Barnes, will once again buzzard and unfortunately many marauding gulls. The be searching for divers on the west site attracts quite a number of visitors who do enjoy the spectacle of close views of swooping kites but we still coast. live in hope of larger numbers coming regularly to the sight. Meanwhile there has not been a satisfactory One day (with a lot of luck) we will find a White-billed outcome to the poisoning of kites and buzzards in April Diver. The meeting point is the Highland Council car last year; it having been labelled as ‘accidental’. park at 09.30 with a second pick-up at Conon Bridge at However, there is still an ongoing criminal investigation. 09.50. Contact: Keith on 01997 421193 Once again l must make an appeal for new committee th members. The two new members, Hilary and Liz, have On Thursday 9 April Maureen MacDonald will be the proved their value, but some of us feel we have leader when we visit Loch Ruthven, where the outstayed our welcome – you must all be fed up with me. Slavonian Grebes should have returned for the summer, l have been on the committee in various capacities for in and Strathdearn, where we will be searching for Eagles excess of twenty five years! Time for a change, but once and other raptors. Meet at Inverness Retail Park at again l will take on one more year as group leader in the 09.30. Contact: Maureen on 01463 220013 hope that someone will come forward to take over. I th think that next year we may be in trouble as the three- The trip to Assynt on Saturday 25 April will now be year term for most committee members comes to an led by Keith and Rosie Barnes, and not Andy Summers end. Please let myself or any other committee member as stated in the Programme. Please note the early know if you are considering joining the committee. We meeting time of 08.30 at the Highland Council car park would welcome you with open arms!! with a second pickup at Conon Bridge at 09.00 Contact: Keith and Rosie on 01997 421193 Doreen Manson Reminders Seating at Meetings: The front row of seats is available for those of you who have difficulty with walking, seeing or hearing, so please avail yourselves of this facility. Stamps: Rosie Barnes is still collecting used postage stamps on behalf of the RSPB, where they are still being collected to fund the ‘save the albatross campaign’. Bad weather contacts: If you are in any doubt that a meeting will take place due to bad weather conditions please contact any committee member for up to date information. In the case of field trips contact the leader for the day. Redshank feeding ©Steve Austin RSPB Sales. Maureen Macdonald will take orders and someone spotted a Slavonian grebe. Undoubtedly throughout the year for goods from the catalogue. my favourite was the pair of entertaining stonechat who Remember that the group funds benefit from your danced from reed to reed in front of us joined briefly by purchases and you do not pay post and package. their male youngster. Maureen also wants it to be known that she can take orders for bird feed and have it delivered directly to En route to the Nigg hide (and lunch) we passed lots of your door (post-free). mallard and oystercatcher probing sand and weed at the tideline. This field trip was particularly well timed as Field Trips. Please note that all Saturday field trips start it followed the indoor talk by Steph Elliot recounting the at 09.30 unless otherwise stated. restoration of the saltmarsh for wildlife at Nigg Bay nature reserve. The excellent visibility all afternoon was much appreciated at the hide where distant birds can be tricky to identify. A huge number of oystercatchers were Cromarty Firth nestled down on a sandy peninsular and an even larger Saturday 22 November 2014 group of bar-tailed godwit were hunkered down below and alongside them. It was difficult for me to identify them at first, as bills were well tucked out of sight and After two particularly dreary days of low similar coloured knot were also there. Pintail were seen mist and fog I was not anticipating the plus a few curlew. weather transformation that occurred on On our departure towards Nigg Ferry a peregrine flew the 22nd. Even by the time we reached over the hide fast and high causing no disturbance the Dingwall canal area the visibility was whatsoever to the normally nervous waders beneath. Someone sagely remarked “He’s obviously had his excellent and a really enjoyable day lunch”. ensued with an excellent count of I don’t think I’ve ever been to the Ferry area at buckthorn (approx.) 63 species. berry time. There was a quite astonishing sight of thicket after thicket of bright orange berries. Initially we were The mouth of the canal had the usual wigeon, red- disappointed that there appeared to be few fieldfare, but breasted merganser, black-headed gull and herring on walking up the back I discovered the bushes were gull with goldeneye and shelduck to be seen much heaving with them, far too busy eating than to be wasting further out. There was a lot of activity in the shrubberies, time lifting their heads to ‘chack chack’ at us! Out in the which were sheltering blue tit, great tit, greenfinch, firth long-tailed duck and eider were spotted together chaffinch, goldcrest, carrion crow, starling, some with a cormorant or two. En route to Balintore whooper noisy house sparrows, wood pigeon, dunnock and a swans were in a field and a buzzard flew overhead. very vocal robin! For those with powerful scopes lots of greylag were seen over on the far Dingwall shore. There was not much to see at Balintore, the light was beginning to go and a chilly wind had sprung up, Our next port of call was the Dalmore Distillery. Lots of however there were various gulls on the harbour wall, duck and waders were enjoying the shallows and were pied wagtail, oystercatcher and a couple of turnstone poking around in the weed and submerged grass. among the rocks. Redshank, lapwing and curlew were in the foreground with teal and wigeon beyond. On walking around to the Altogether it was a most enjoyable and rewarding day point meadow pipit, rook, jackdaw and grey heron out. Thank you Doreen and John Manson our were seen and in the far distance by a blue buoy a knowledgeable and conscientious guides. solitary eider was bobbing around. Greylag, pink- Freydis Campbell footed goose and Canada goose were on the far shore Half of Belize is covered by dense jungle, and eighty Indoor Meeting percent of its rainforest remains under government protection, with much of it unexplored.
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