Skye skies from the window (2 Viewers)

[CWH]

Over the last couple of weeks:

Lambing time on the crofts, so an influx of hooded crows, gulls, buzzards, and eagles, golden and WTE. Which means that the 2 pairs of peewits are on high alert and in aggression mode. A couple of jackdaws. Pair of redshank, cuckoos busy cuckooing all day and night, and this year's first sighting of wheatear. A few larks. Snipe sounding off. Still waiting for stonechats to arrive.
Looking a bit further, more gulls, oyster-catcher, curlew, gannet. Greylag geese. There will be smaller shorebirds but can't see them from here.
All the usual garden suspects: hedge sparrow, greenfinch, lots of goldfinch, chaffinch, great tit, blue tit, coal tit, blackbird, rock dove, starling, reed bunting, now redpoll and linnet and a couple of pairs of bullfinch. Occasional thrushes. Outlier male siskin.
Occasional fly-by: sparrowhawk, kestrel, male hen harrier (not seen the female yet this year).
Various owls nearby but not hearing them.

It's getting busy!

 

[CWH]

Ha! female hen harrier on the way back from the village this evening - gorgeous with the sun giving her undercarriage a beautiful russet glow - so a pair in situ

 

[The Old Man]

Nature?

Beautiful, cruel, kind and beautiful again, so much we can admire and enjoy but in the end it's survival of the fittest or strongest!

 

[CazPaul]

I expected some lovely photos, come on, get clicking

 

[The Old Man]

A lovely senset to the west but no sign òf the moonrise yet.

I've been surrounded by a steamed up car to the west and a parked up van to the east!

I'm sightly the worse for wear after two bottles of Cava and the reserve Whisky,

A good sleep all.

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[CWH]

I expected some lovely photos, come on, get clicking

Apologies - I can see why you would - nothing spectacular over the last few days except stunning auroras that my phone can't capture.
So my skies have been all about birdlife. And my phone's not good enough. Sorry!

I suppose you can have this one: the Skye Bridge, Eilean Ban lighthouse, and Gavin Maxwell's (Ring of Bright Water) cottage, from Caol Acain last Friday: a blue Skye sky.

 

[CWH]

..... although this (yesterday) is just as likely atm - squall passing up loch Harport

 

[Otter Spotter]

Over the last couple of weeks:

Lambing time on the crofts, so an influx of hooded crows, gulls, buzzards, and eagles, golden and WTE. Which means that the 2 pairs of peewits are on high alert and in aggression mode. A couple of jackdaws. Pair of redshank, cuckoos busy cuckooing all day and night, and this year's first sighting of wheatear. A few larks. Snipe sounding off. Still waiting for stonechats to arrive.
Looking a bit further, more gulls, oyster-catcher, curlew, gannet. Greylag geese. There will be smaller shorebirds but can't see them from here.
All the usual garden suspects: hedge sparrow, greenfinch, lots of goldfinch, chaffinch, great tit, blue tit, coal tit, blackbird, rock dove, starling, reed bunting, now redpoll and linnet and a couple of pairs of bullfinch. Occasional thrushes. Outlier male siskin.
Occasional fly-by: sparrowhawk, kestrel, male hen harrier (not seen the female yet this year).
Various owls nearby but not hearing them.

It's getting busy!

Thank you for the narration, it sounds like paradise for us but I don’t think we will get up to Skye this year, house hunting and must do Shetland later this year. Keep posting your pictures please

 

[CWH]

Thank you for the narration, it sounds like paradise for us but I don’t think we will get up to Skye this year, house hunting and must do Shetland later this year. Keep posting your pictures please

I'm thinking a trip to Shetland as well this year. Maybe around June. Must get my planning hat on!

 

[Otter Spotter]

I'm thinking a trip to Shetland as well this year. Maybe around June. Must get my planning hat on!

June should be great for Sumburgh Puffins and whales in abundance, Otter young may not be out of the Holts yet but last years young will still be with mum.

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[CAB96]

We have enjoyed seeing Oystercatchers in the Outer Hebrides and Orkney the past two years.

Yesterday I was walking from my car to the office, in the middle of Trafford Park, the largest industrial estate in Western Europe.

There are lots of gulls about, and I'm used to hearing them, but I heard a different call and it seemed familiar.

I looked up, and there was an Oystercatcher flying overhead! Twenty years I've been working in this location, never seen one here before!

 

[CWH]

Here's a Skye sky photo from the window ... for those who want photos ... evening sun and a cloud cap on the Black Cuillin under an otherwise empty sky

 

[Carol]

Enjoying your posts Wendy and if course any photos.

 

[CWH]

Enjoying your posts Wendy and if course any photos.

Just for you Carol
Clever mama (actually I suspect the 2 on the left belong elsewhere)

 

[CWH]

Another Skye sky from the window - what a mix of clouds

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[lorger]

Looks lovely, we might actually end up there in a couple of weeks, obviously depending on forecast

 

[CWH]

Looks lovely, we might actually end up there in a couple of weeks, obviously depending on forecast

Having some lovely sun Gerry, but it's

 

[lorger]

Having some lovely sun Gerry, but it's

Sounds ideal, not sure where we’re going yet, will check forecast but probably up the west coast somewhere.

 

[Wee Bold Davy]

The West Highlands truly is Gods country IMO. Like to get back home twice a year if possible. First trip on 26th May, visiting family/friends near Glasgow then up the A82 through my beloved Glencoe. Feeling homesick just thinking about it

 

[Wee Bold Davy]

Looks lovely, we might actually end up there in a couple of weeks, obviously depending on forecast

Don't worry about the weather, if you don't like what you've got, make yourself a cuppa and it will change by the time you're finished

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[CWH]

Don't worry about the weather, if you don't like what you've got, make yourself a cuppa and it will change by the time you're finished

So true ..... deciding whether or not to hang out laundry is the stuff of nightmares

 

[CWH]

 

[Carol]

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Looks Moody and mysterious.

 

[CWH]

Pre-sunrise, just now
(and the air's full of birdsong - melodious blackbird, who-knows-what garden birds, and the non-stop cuckoo)

 

[dryad]

really not sure how i've missed so much of this thread but thankfully found it this morning, some stunning photos from wendy but then, they usually are..

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[CWH]

'Morning Toni, sometimes I feel that my windows are a bit like an art gallery in a nature reserve, and it's lovely to share.
Bird-wise, Swallows have now appeared. Down south (Sleat) a couple of Glossy Ibis.

 

[CWH]

Opposite side
Clouds are thinning and breaking, should be a fine day

 

[dryad]

'Morning Toni, sometimes I feel that my windows are a bit like an art gallery in a nature reserve, and it's lovely to share.
Bird-wise, Swallows have now appeared. Down south (Sleat) a couple of Glossy Ibis.

but yet, an art gallery where the same pictures are ever changing, from moody, to inspirational, to happy smile making and never, ever, static or boring just depending on the light, the weather, flippin' magical, and of course with an ever changing background soundtrack..

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[Wee Bold Davy]

Looks Moody and mysterious.

Had to check that attachment Carol I thought someone had posted a photo of me

 

[CWH]

Had to go shopping, front window Skye sky view at Bayfield (Portree), shorts'n'T weather today

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