Scotland Visit Day 6 : WWT Caerlaverock : 13th September 2011
On the Tuesday morning we drove from Stirling to Dumfries. The weather wasn’t brilliant but the worst of the storms seemed to pass in the night. We had planned on going over to the west coast and then driving down and then inland again to get to Dumfries but since this was where the bad weather was coming from we decided to take a more direct inland route. As it happens this afforded me at least (since Anne was driving) a good view of a Hooded Crow. I had seen it flying across the road and then wheeling round and coming back to land on a roadside post. I couldn’t decide what it was but suspected it was a Hooded Crow ; a suspicion confirmed as it flew off just as we drove past giving a clear view of its body and wings. This is a bit ironic since we had been looking out in particular for a Hooded Crow to add to our year list when we had been up north. In the end we had to wait until we were nearly at the borders to see one.