Last week..

Survey work in the Highlands. After a long cold wet winter, spring really arrived last week and some great birds were seen. A young White-tailed Eagle was being 'Shadowed' by an adult Golden Eagle when the White-tailed strayed too close , Black Grouse leking, Black-throated and Red-throated Diver in breeding plumage and flocks of Pink-footed Geese and Whooper Swan bound for Iceland. 

Yesterday...

A vis mig watch from my patch at Ferryhills produced a steady passage of Meadow Pipit through to the NW and 1 Sand Martin. See here for totals 

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In the afternoon at Letham a Jack Snipe was located in the open giving good views in the scope along the edge of the small island.

Its not often you get to see a Jack Snipe out in the open. Initially the bird was asleep but after a while it woke up and began feeding when I got to see the strange 'bouncing' motion.

Black-throated Diver in summer plumage: got to be up there as one of the finest sights in birding.