Cottage Diary - Aspenwood self catering luxury Holiday Cottage overlooking Loch Ness in the Highlands of Scotland.

The bird table is a busy place at the moment. There are more robins than before and they fly down from the nearby trees as soon as I put something tasty out on the table - today it was bacon fat. They also like the hanging ball of mixed food and are quite agile and acrobatic for their size. They are quite verbal in their appreciation. Also sighted quite a few siskins, chaffinches and blackbirds. The predatory sparrowhawk swoops down so fast but he is usually unlucky although he did give one of the cats quite a scare by zooming just over her head.

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