Wednesday 17 June 2015

June

It's somehow June already! Been busy on Oronsay. 



I've been surveying for wader chicks the last couple of months, lapwing chick pictured. It has been a very strange spring, feels like winter more often than not and I suspect the breeding birds will have suffered as a result.



Skylark nest in the grass.



Marsh fritillary on the wing last week.



We had a trip out to seal island which is just off the end of Oronsay to the south west. There is a wreck somewhere offshore and this pottery was its cargo. The broken china washes up along the southern beaches.