This weekend. Wet and windy at times so I was mainly playing with the new camera looking out the window at home in Dunfermline. A real treat was a cracking male Mealy Redpoll with a delicate pink flush on the breast on Sat that stayed still just long enough for some pics. The weather brightened up on Sat afternoon so I went back to Angle Park but only small numbers of gulls present, then on to Letham where there was decent flock of Greylag and Pink-feet but nothing unusual with them.

A few Mealy Redpolls have been turning up with Lesser Redpoll, Siskin and Goldfinch outside the house since January but very mobile and difficult to photograph. These are the best pics I've managed and as well as the pallid plumage tones they show off the Jizz rather well-the large headed bull necked appearance. Super looking male moulting into summer plumage.

Lesser Redpoll and Siskin are regular by the house.

A sign of spring is the sudden increase in Lesser Black-backed Gulls around Dunfermline.

On the way for a coffee came across a nice herd of 62 Whooper Swans feeding on turf fields near Scotlandwell, Loch Leven.