Article for 2010 Apr 04
Part of the “Easter 2010” series.
2010
2010 Apr
Apr 04 Easter Sun “Silent is Golden-eye” 
A nice little area of Badenoch was re-visited today. I took some photos of the woods and lochans. There were at least seven frogs in the pools and lots of frog-spawn. Four ducks were swimming on one lochan: a pair of mallards and a pair of golden-eye! The golden-eye were quite far from me and near the centre of the lochan, so my photos aren’t very good, though you can tell the ducks are golden-eye.
And I think I saw a dotterel waddling in a field on the journey back, near Insh Marshes and Ruthven Barracks! I am excited. I’ll have to update my Index of Birds I’ve Sensed (IBIS, my avian life-list).
Lent is starting to seem like a good idea.