1st Pinkfeet arrived

[3lbgrayling]

Saw my 1st skeins of Pinkfeet arriving in the forth valley today.

Jim

 

[drumbowiefisher]

I live in cockenzie and the noise they were making flying over in the middle of the night woke us up....noisy buggers


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[3lbgrayling]

Was back up the river on wed,(no fish) but all afternoon on a reasonable NE wind.Hundreds of pinkfeet arrived.Skien after Skien.With them getting all exited.They were travelling way up, but as they got near their wintering grounds.they dropped rapidly. saw a wheatear heading south. still quite a few swallows about.and still some curlews on the damp fields .

Jim

 

[codyarrow]

. still quite a few swallows about.and still some curlews on the damp fields .

Jim

Yesterday I was in Sutherland at Strathy and counted 23 swallows sitting on an electric wire. It was the hottest day I can remember in Sept. My neighbour told me that his swallows got their last brood out of the nest on second week of Sept. I did wonder if this was too late for them to feed and develop and then travel?

 

[3lbgrayling]

Sad to say.Food for the raptors(most of the late broods)

Jim