Ming the Merciless

Its been a long time, that is since image uploads seemed to work on the blog, so I have been quietly cogitating. My territory is now full of noise and activity, corncrake(s), sedge and grasshopper warblers making the most noise but not always in that order of annoyance. I still havn’t caught a bird this year, which is good news to many but the fledgelings are yet to peak!
So in the mean time, a few snaps from my cat-cam of Barra, somewhere my humans rant on about (God, does one of um ever rant !), taken the other evening from the south end of Hough Bay.

In the other direction, at the road side lochs, RTD’s can be regularly seen preparing for their brood to hatch. I’ve no chance of getting them, cats and water and all that…. But here’s one that made me drool..

And meanwhile back at home that damn sedge warbler is still telling me exactly where I might find him. He is a handsome bird though and I think I’ll leave him alone. It’s a pitty I can’t upload sound files, the noise of Uig is devastaing, probably because there are no other noises to compete with the suround sound of tens of crakes in the twilight. I’ve never heard a skylark at 3am before or the volume of numbers of drumming and chipping snipe. This is a kool place for a cat.