Waiting for breakfast
5.30 am and we had thick mist all around the house.
7.30 am and the mist was lifting. Curlews, Oystercatchers and Common Gulls were calling in the field behind the house. In the front garden the sparrows were queuing up for breakfast. The breakfast bar consists of mixed wild bird seed and fat balls. Yum.
The bird life on Orkney is a delight. We can't be the only people here to keep binoculars in the kitchen. And a couple of bird books. We have birds nesting in the fields behind the house and we are looking forward to watching the young being raised. It will be a testing time for the parents. There are also Hooded Crows, Hen Harriers and Merlins patrolling these fields.
Happy memories come back of a long stint in Orkney in September 2004, and a revisit four years later. However, I awake along the seafront in Stornoway which is not bad on a sunny April morning either.
ReplyDeleteI would love to wake up and be able to look out to see the sea. Looking out over the fields is a nice second best view though :-)
ReplyDeleteI haven't managed to get to Stornoway yet, but it is on my 'must visit' list though.
Binoculars in the kitchen.... bet soon, like the rest of us, you'll have binoculars on every windowsill! Though I always find my bird book is in "the other room"!
ReplyDeleteWe were just saying the other day that we need an extra pair of binoculars in the car because we keep forgetting to pick them up from the kitchen when we go out!
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