Tit Crested Caledonian Forest 19.3.2014 (1)

 

We have just returned from a week in the Caledonian Forest with very mixed results.

 

Wildlife was not as obliging as we had hoped a fact commented upon by many other would be photographers.

 

Many of the hoped for subjects like mountain hares, ptarmigan, had moved higher up the mountain and were not accessible to us who have certain limitation on mobility due to age!!!.

 

 

Another of our hoped for targets were crested tits and our hopes were dented when locals told us that they had seen so few as these birds had started prospecting for nest sites.

 

Even the photographers that had travelled miles in the hope of a click or two were despondent.

 

In all honesty we sat for two whole days at a site and on each occasion only one bird turned up and for no more than ten seconds before flying off back into the forest not to be seen again that day.

 

You do not know that of course so we continued to stay but without further sightings.

 

These images therefore are the sum of a long wait and after over thirteen hundred miles round trip. We must be mad at our ages but we know this is typical of wildlife photography..

 

 

Done