Our colony of lapwings are doing well, still incubating, and I spotted another two or three today on nests, taking us up to nine or ten at the pasture plus a few outwith that as well. A really good lot of curlew, maybe six pairs, so all we need now is some good weather then they all hatch.
Disturbed quite a big leveret today so it's had an early start for this far north anyway, and I saw a group of mad April hares. Everything else is settling in with a couple of pairs of wheatears, stonechats, and warblers singing in the ghyll as well as a good scattering of pipits. The usual cock pheasants are strutting their stuff and there was the occasional grouse calling.
A room with a view - the adaptable Lapwing - making a nest out of a mole hill...
2022-04-19