With a spell of settled weather there is always the possibility that our bean geese will arrive on the plateau. However I have been out the past couple of days and there is no sign of them at Luckenburn. One of the locals has heard geese flying over his house but was not able to identify them.
At the weekend I was in Galloway at the WatsonBirds festival in St Johns Town of Dalry. There were two excellent presentations from Dutch birders on the migration of Raptors from Europe down into Africa.
Roy Dennis from Moray also gave a superb presentation on why it is necessary to use telemetry methods to follow the life of our Golden Eagles in Scotland.
On the way home traveled down the west side of Loch Ken and was rewarded by the sight of many Red Kites and the odd Buzzard. Just think of what it would be like to have Red Kites on the Slamannan Plateau. Perhaps one day!
