Fàilte gu Alba! ...that's Gaelic for welcome to Scotland, by the way. In my last blog, I finished with a photo of the offered bounty of Rowan berries hanging off the trees...well, invaders from the north have arrived. Mistle Thrush numbers soon became bolstered with Redwings and then Fieldfares in our local fields, whilst elsewhere small groups of Waxwings have turned up...all arriving from Scandinavia. "Welcome to Scotland!" a local Chaffinch welcomes a Fieldfare Other bird species have also arrived from the east, helped by some keen easterly winds in the last couple of weeks. Species both mundane and exotic have appeared, and not just in our part of Scotland. For example, yours truly has found a Yellow-browed Warbler and a Great Grey Shrike - neither are especially rare in the scheme of things, and very much expected on passage at this time of year. In both cases, a wee bit of knowledge helped...important when finding any bird not pointed out to you by som