I saw a grey wagtail down by the river yesterday. When the insectivores start appearing summer can't far off. Sadly no photo the wee bugger was far too quick. If ever there was a poorly named bird it's this one. Grey? No, mainly bright yellow! :D
Summer never arrives there Andy. Hasn't anyone told you? :lol:
The skeins of geese are all high in the sky and heading north round out hear always a good sign
Definitely been a change last week or so, sure we have some hard times still ahead of us but a change nevertheless and nature is responding. I was out for a walk on Friday, glorious sunny day. I had a rod but mainly just carried it as I was checking out some trooty stretches. Water low and clear and I spotted a few from a bridge and a nice one from the bank that casually moved off at 45 degrees.
Noisy geese above me, a bird of prey jumping from post to post as I walked bankside, flees hatching, the smell of shite in the fields. Things are looking up.
Had a cast or two for the grayling, nothing doing although I did tempt one nicely conditioned troot that tested the knots.
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1st game of golf today. Nice enough but not really warm.
Woodpeckers giving it laldy and a few wee trout moving around under the bridge.
Not long now.
A.
Quote from: admin on March 03, 2013, 09:59:20 AM
I saw a grey wagtail down by the river yesterday. When the insectivores start appearing summer can't far off. Sadly no photo the wee bugger was far too quick. If ever there was a poorly named bird it's this one. Grey? No, mainly bright yellow! :D
I had a wee cast on the Dee on Thursday for an hour before it got dark and the water was Baltic. I could feel my private parts, that's not true, all feeling was gone after five minutes in the water but there were a couple of upwings still coming off the water.
Hopefully the water should warm up a little for the 15th.
Billy
Even down in the south (paisley) my park is full to the brim with red wings. Couple of warm weeks needed yet. Sb
Things are at last starting to warm up down here! :D
Much colder here today too Andy. East winds and they are forecast to get worse as the week progresses. :(
Quote from: Roobarb on March 05, 2013, 02:24:21 PM
2. A parcel containing two wildfisher fly lines, cheers Fred :D
That was quick there were only posted yesterday morning.
Hell I'm good! :lol:
The old boys round here have it that your wasting you time with the lochs when there's still snow on the Cailliach, just peeked out the kitchen window, and it's still there, bits of her white plaid laid out to dry. But, there's 10 days to go yet.
The past week has been really mild and tonight could almost have passed for a summer's evening, but it looks like it's all going to change tomorrow. A couple of days of gales forecast then it's going to get chilly.....
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Quote from: Buanán on March 05, 2013, 06:14:22 PM
The old boys round here have it that your wasting you time with the lochs when there's still snow on the Cailliach, just peeked out the kitchen window, and it's still there, bits of her white plaid laid out to dry. But, there's 10 days to go yet.
A loch Tony I have been sussing out for a potential opening weekend jaunt comes with the same warning. The loch is low lying but if there is snow on the hill...
Quote from: Otter Spotter on March 06, 2013, 09:41:58 AM
A loch Tony I have been sussing out for a potential opening weekend jaunt comes with the same warning. The loch is low lying but if there is snow on the hill...
Worth heeding in my experience, last year my first lochan jaunt was fruitful despite being chased off the hill by snow driven on a cold NE wind. The water temp was well up on the air though, and, there was no snow on the hill opposite.
I was out for a look at the nearest burn and bay this morning, and it was perishingly cold, too cold and enough to temper my enthusiasm until things warm a bit. A little less snow on Ben a' Caillieach, than there was last time I could see it. So there's hope yet, as the forecast wind and rain may shift the last of it.
There can be snow in the corries opposite me until May!
A pied wagtail prospecting his usual nesting site this morning.
I too heed the advice of a very much wiser fisherman and await the return of the osprey in the next two - three weeks. For good fly hatches, the return of the swallows (third week of April onwards) is a good sign.
Quote from: Inchlaggan on March 06, 2013, 12:45:29 PM
There can be snow in the corries opposite me until May!
A pied wagtail prospecting his usual nesting site this morning.
I too heed the advice of a very much wiser fisherman and await the return of the osprey in the next two - three weeks. For good fly hatches, the return of the swallows (third week of April onwards) is a good sign.
Aye Ken, but those corries opposite you have 500' to a 1000' on the old girl I mention, plus she's on an island thats more than a tad milder than the mainland, especially your rather tundral corner of it.
Osprey's and Swallows would be worth the watching, thats a good tip that. With us it's incremental, as the season advances one heads up and eastwards for lochs. The low lochs of home and the isles are really the only viable waters locally, earlydoors. It can still frozen solid at bunloyne/Glenmorriston when the fishing starts for us.
Big change here today, grey and cold. Forecast for the start of the season if not great either. :(
Aye, it'll get worse afore it gets better. :lol: