Article for 2012 Apr 09

2012

2012 Apr

Apr 09 Easter Mon(ey)

And now we’re going see Loch Insh, and the osprey nesting nearby.

The bushes behind Loch Insh are popular with chaffinches and pied wagtails, and the loch itself is popular with mallards. (I mistook one mallard for a tufted duck, due to the intense natural lighting.)

But before we arrived at Loch Insh, just after we’d left our lodgings in Kingussie, we found several partridges in the Insh Marshes RSPB Reserve. They’re likable birds; then again, I could like any bird. Dad asked us if there was a difference between partridges and young pheasants. I proceeded to ask him if there was a difference between monkeys and young peasants. The answer is too rude to publish here, and my question was too rude for me to actually say.

Anyway, at Loch Insh we did indeed see the resident osprey, on its distant nest.