All a bit quiet in Ninewells Wood recently, not seen any Kites or Ravens recently and even the Buzzards seem a bit sparse. I have been brush cutting along my paths knocking back the Bracken and removing some Gorse and Brambles, so it has been a bit noisy. The squirrels are an ongoing pain not content with taking a few nuts or seed from the feeders they feel the need to cut through the wire that supports them in the  trees and then remove the feeding ports.

There have been a pair of Linnets around but they seem to flit in an out. I did spot a small bird on the ground recently and hoped it was a Tree Pipit, they used to visit for a few years after the Corsican Pines were removed. But since the Birch and other trees have grown up I have not seen them. However I have removed a lot of Birch in one area to create an open patch dominated by Heather and Bilberry. So they might come back.

However this LBJ was not a Pipit it was a Finch as can be seen by its beak shape. So it was a female Linnet, still good but not the Tree Pipit. The photo below is the Tree Pipit taken some years earlier.