Caerlaverock

I'm still continuing to post photos from our recent trip to Dumfries and Galloway. On the third day of our visit we went to Caerlaverock National Nature Reserve and the neighbouring WWT Reserve, one of our favourite places to visit, a mosaic of arable land and coastal habitats. 

At this time of year barnacle geese are coming in in their thousands to overwinter and feed in the fields - here is a distant view of just a few of the geese we saw.  

 

Other wildlife highlights included wigeon 

several dragonflies, including this one, which I think is a common darter

and several stonechats (click on the phto below for a better view)

In fact at one point we watched about ten stonechats in the one place, which is more than we've ever seen together!

Back in the hotel that day we had great views of a nuthatch feeding on the sunflower seeds we had put out on the wondowsill 

For Nature Notes