Long Tails and Long Tales

Welcome to my blog!

I'm Laura and I figure I should tell you a little bit about my background before I go off on one...

I am currently on the committee of the North Ayrshire RSPB Local Group as the newsletter editor (you can find my beautiful creations here) and have officially served the committee since I was 14. Not that I like to brag but I was the youngest committee member of a local RSPB group in Scotland, if not the UK, at the time! And how I got there? Let's just say I was born into a family of nature nuts - mum, dad, grandma and grandpa. They helped create the NA Group in 1976 and with the build of the Lochwinnoch RSPB reserve - a little bit before my time though.

Although I didn't make a career out of my interest with nature, it is still close to my heart and take the time whenever I can to get out and adventure. My local haunts being renowned Hogganfield Park and Alexandra Park.

I plan to divulge all my adventures (I imagine to a very small crowd) on the hunt for birds and bees and bats and bluebells. Or anything to do with nature really, it doesn't necessarily have to start with a B! So before I dive into a big adventure (which I hope to scatter with photos of my own) I'll end this blog with a couple of snippets of recent sightings.

Long Tails
Sitting out my back garden, sketching up some drawings ready to paint (which I will get round to some day!) I noticed a pair of long-tailed tits flitting through collecting nesting material. In the time I was sitting they passed through three times - so cute! Coming from the middle of Saltcoats it was very unusual to see them, now I've got them nesting close by. Quite exciting for me!

Coots Galore
A quick walk through Alexandra Park the other evening had me counting coot nests. The total coming to five across the two reasonably small ponds. And after seeing two pairs fighting, I can only imagine it's going to get uglier before the summer is out!

Hope you come back for more!