Arbroath Harbour Birdlife

A short trip to Arbroath Harbour and surrounds looking for a Black Redstart, Long-tailed Duck, a Scoter or in my dreams a Desert Wheatear.... none of them were seen. 

The 95 Golden Plovers weren't unexpected, I thought they'd be hanging about on the tideline rocks, but where. I picked them out from Danger Point looking along to South Street, they didn't stay long as the tide rose.

Other photos are from Inchcape Park and the Curlie in Montrose.

Golden Plovers, South Street in Arbroath, moving on the incoming tide in front of "Hashie's Bench"

Great black-backed Gull 1st winter with darvic ring yellow 287:M. Photographed with a rainbow background from the Old Brewhouse car park at Danger Point

Starling

Rock Pipit

Human rubbish

Purple Sandpiper, Arbroath Harbour

Cormorant

Eider drake

Redshank

Turnstone feeding on the detritus where creels are cleaned

Greenfinch at Inchcape Park beach

Robin also

Moorhen at "The Curlie" in Montrose

Herring Gull with darvic ring yellow T:00X, ringed by a local ringer as an immature female on 9/5/21.  

(Hatched 2019)

Jackdaw

Oystercatcher

Peregrine, Carnoustie

   
Just a few photos from around Arbroath and Carnoustie, with a couple of AI constructs added showing the popular new cycle-way

Goosander fishing for Perch at Murton NR      Goldeneye drake, Monikie CP

Peregrine 1st winter seen flying over Carlogie Road in Carnoustie in heavy cloud and rain

I've still got this Sparrowhawk male visiting my garden but not as often, and I have never seen it make a kill

Dog sick slime mold, recently there were 8 small patches on my lawn. It doesn't appear to cause any problems and only occurs at this time of year when the ground and air is wet

The new cycle-way which bisects Arbroath which took 77 weeks to construct

This part is in front of Gayfield Park, home of the "Mighty Red Lichties"

Both photos by Gemini which couldn't seem to understand "two cars wide, ten cars deep"

Weird bubbles and Common Snipe

   
Mostly photos from my Webs Survey which left me wondering where Dunlin, Sanderling, Bar-tailed Godwits and Grey Plovers were. I think there was a lot of activity over the weekend at East Haven which might have affected the birds, or is it the warm unseasonal weather?

Videos below from a few places and dates, click to view, all UHD except the Vixen

Common Snipe at Stannochy      "Godwits in the mist"      Little Egret and weird bubbles      

Golden Plover flock emerged from the mist      Red-necked Grebe (centre) Lunan Bay      Little Egret fishing      

My current Sparrowhawk      Distant Green Sandpiper, Slunks      Vixen in my garden (3rd winter)

One of two Little Egrets seen at East Haven while doing my Webs Survey

Female Stonechat

Carrion Crow with a Buckie, the local name for an Edible Periwinkle Littorina littorea

Curlews

Redshank

Wren

Redshanks

Oystercatchers, Turnstones and a Curlew that didn't get the email about which direction to look

Grey Heron on Keptie Pond with a small Perch, a fish that were introduced into the pond many years ago

Sparrowhawk 1st winter male in an apple tree, in my front garden 2 metres from the pavement

Purple Sandpiper at Arbroath Harbour. Health and Safety prevented getting the whole bird in

Montrose Basin as the mist started to clear around midday! The Steeple is in the centre 4 km distant