It's been an exhausting week, which is not yet over, but it has offered some excellent birding, especially this morning where lekking Black Grouse performed admirably at one of our regular sites on the edge of Caithness. An hour spent with five males and two scuritising females resulted in us watching a pair mating! Viewing from the car was valuable as the birds don't care and it remains warm (for us).
Also on this site were the repetitive sounds of displaying Greenshanks, Curlews, Golden Plovers and Oystercatchers, whiles in the valleys were our usual pair of Golden Eagle, a Dipper and an Osprey (now my 6th of the spring).
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