Don't ask that question, Mike! As you know they cull them in Scotland and I have seen dead females in the streams in Dumfries, not a happy sight in May.
Hobby on the bog this morning, bit bedraggled but sitting out on the dead stumps near the waiting room so easily seen.
2 cuckoos singing and displaying their tails being mobbed by the little brown birds, to no avail!
The mallard still has 11 youngsters on the flash and good close views of the sedge warblers can be had right in front of the big windows.