Scotland part three

 While we are up in the Pitlochry area, we usually pay a visit to Loch of the Lowes Wildlife Reserve to see the Osprey. Unfortunately, this year we were a week to late the resident pair had already left. We did however see one Osprey passing through but the warden wasn’t sure if it was one of the local birds or not. As luck would have it, we drove into Dunkeld for lunch and low and behold an Osprey was fishing on the river. Unfortunately, it was flying and hovering directly into the sun. I managed to get some shots and then decided to move to the bridge over the river to see if I could get something better. When I was nearing the bridge, I could see another photographer and when I arrived he told me the Osprey had dived, caught a fish, and had flown off to eat it. I wish I had stayed where I was.

Osprey at the Loch of the Lowes.

I tried, without much success, to catch the Sand Martins if flight.

There were some Deer on the opposite shore to the hide we were in.

Some iffy shots of the Osprey at Dunkeld.

This Jay was in the garden when we got back to the cottage.

This Spider was in the cottage my wife caught it in a glass and put it outside so I could get a shot of it.

We had a drive into the hills surrounding the cottage that evening to see what we could spot the only things I got any images of were these Deer.

Kingfisher

 Having said I only saw three birds at Far Pastures I only saw two at Clara Vale oh and a couple of Roe Deer.

Male Kingfisher.

He caught a leaf

Realised his mistake and dropped it.

He did catch a small fish

Showed it to me 

Threw it up to get it into the right position

Then swallowed it.

He did catch something else 

but I’m not sure what it is, could it be a Caddisfly larva.

Another catch this time another fish.

The only other bird I saw was a Goosander which didn’t stay long it flew off in the direction of the river.

A couple of Roe Deer wandered quite close to the hide.

Another local walk

 05.06.22 Just some of the wildlife seen on another of my local walks up to the whinny bushes.

A couple of Roe Deer were sitting among the whinny bushes.

Roe Buck busy sitting chewing the cud.

Female Roe Deer.

Willow Warbler. I stood and watched for a while and a constant stream of insects were taken into the nest.

Whitethroat. There seemed to be a couple of nests in the same patch of brambles. While I watched I saw at least four different bird come in with insects.

These two young Wren were sitting waiting to be fed.

A young Robin.

Chiffchaff.

Male Bullfinch.

These Weevils look to be cuddling.

A mating pair of Weevils.

Caterpillar feeding on a pine tree.

A nest of Spiders.

Gracillariidae Sp.?