With Crossbill numbers having been low recently it was good to see more birds in the Border Forest area recently ...
... as usual many of the views were simple fly-overs ...
... yet some simply perched up, silently on bare branches ...
An unexpected flock of nine Barnacle Geese flew over the Spadeadam Forest three days ago and these were the first barnacles of the year for me after seeing Pink-footed Geese over the past few weeks ...
It's always fascinating to hear back from the ringers of CR gulls ... this Black-headed Gull was at Carr Beds on 9th September while I was there investigating some questionable rarity records ...
... ringed in South Lanarkshire as a pullus on 18th June 2019 this was the first resighting of the bird that had been reported ...
