On the same day as my previous blog about Waxwings I discovered something amazing so decided to write a separate blog about it.
When I was looking back through the photographs I’d taken of the Waxwings in Motherwell the day after New Year, I discovered that one of the birds had 5 rings on its legs.
On New Year’s Day I went to the James Hamilton Heritage Park in Stewartfield, East Kilbride to try out my new scope. I didn’t expect to see much because it’s only a small loch.
It was freezing and there was a lot of ice but surprisingly there were a lot of bird species around. I only had to walk a quarter of the way round until I saw some Scaup. I didn’t even need to set up the scope at this point because three of them were only a couple of metres away which gave me the chance to get a few close up photos.
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Hello,
Welcome to my first blog. My name is Michael Sinclair and I’m a young photographer from Scotland. For my first blog I decided to write about some of the October week which I mainly spent in the Cairngorms (Scottish Highlands).
