The bird above was one of several I saw today, I was checking out some local territories and found a Meadow Pipit's nest which already had a Cuckoo chick hatched in it and witnessed another bird removing and eating a Meadow Pipit egg before laying one of it's own eggs in the nest. They realy are facinating birds to watch, if you pick an elevated position and just sit and watch it's amazing just how much of their activity you can actually...

Had a great time in Fife, highlights were an unexpected 1st summer Great Northern Diver at Fife Ness, also large movements of Gannet, Guillemot, Kittiwake and Sandwich Tern past there.
We had amazing views of a 1st summer Iceland Gull at Anstruther Harbour and also good views of a Badger at a set in local farmland.
All in all a successful few days, will post some photos when I sort the out, all 2500+ of them!

cheers, John

Getting ready to head off to Fife early tomorrow morning for 3 days, heading for RAF Leuchars first to see a friend (and photograph some of the metal birds there ), then heading to another friends in Crail on Tuesday morning for two days of bird watching, photography. Hopefully will have some interesting photos to show when I return

Happy birding, John

Went to Pollok Estate to see if I could find any Nuthatch (they have been seen in the area recently but are a rare bird in this part of the country and I didn't really expect to see them). To my surprise within 15 mins of leaving the car I heard one calling, I went to wards the area the call came from and the bird started singing, I managed to get some distant images of the bird feeding high up in a tree. Also saw my first Swallow of the year there.

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