18 January 2006

Couple of Cincles




Location : Lade Braes, St Andrews, Scotland

I was lucky with that one. These 2 little birds are amasing. They are called "cincles" in French (species is cinclus cinclus). They are the only of the little singing birds to be able to dive in water where they can stay about 30 seconds. The nest too is strange, it looks like a football attached to a rocks or under a bridge.
There is couple of them along the Kinessburn in St Andrews and after many unfruitful trials to catch one of them, I got the couple close to their nest, on the Lade Braes.

No comments: