Highlands Day 2 : 15th October 2016
We had the idea that the Black Isle might not be as wet as the rest of the immediate area which turned out to be a rather optimistic outlook as it actually rained non-stop everywhere we went and often quite heavily.
We started out for the Black Isle by driving along the road to Carrbridge, the Carr Road. The fields around and sky above the Carr Road were full of flocks of mixed Mistle Thrushes, Redwing, Fieldfares and Starlings with the odd Reed Bunting and Chaffinch thrown in. This made for a really nice scene and the birds were so active that they may well have just arrived from parts further north.Our next stop was North Kessock where the skies as sea were full of Gannets, mainly juveniles but some adults.