Dotterel

It was misty and wet or both all day; out in the afternoon after lots of admin chores (it's a tax paying time of year). The picture of the digger moving off the low loader ready to start on Dublin Street  didn't come out as intended, so you get the blip as promised last week of the print from the Alchemical Aviary. It hasn't yet got as far as the framer. Accompanying rubric from the book below. 

The DOTTEREL (Charadrius Morinellus). A small buff coloured plover with brown and black streaks and a broad white eye-stripe and orange chest band. A migratory bird which winters in North Africa and nests on windswept, barren and sparsely vegetated ridges on the Cairngorms above 1000m. Stops off on route on the Pentland Hills in May. Unusually the male bird looks after the young.
Global warming is regarded as a major threat to birds and other biodiversity. In particular, birds of montane habitats are especially susceptible to climate change impacts, as they have restricted opportunities to move to higher elevations to find suitable climate space. The Dotterel is one of several birds on the UK's endangered species list, whose numbers are falling drastically in the Cairngorms, their only breeding ground in the UK above 1000m. Through global warming and human development its Cairngorm habitat has been irreversibly changed.