Saturday 11 June 2011

Auchmithie to Arbroath Coastal Path, Castlesea Bay.

My original plan for Friday June 11th was to walk from Auchmithie to Arbroath along the coastal, clifftop path and take photos for a revised version of the walk on the Walkingworld website. I did however get distracted as usual and only got about a third of the way along due to taking photos of anything of interest.

At the top of this entry I've included a picture of a Juvenile Humpback Whale which was washed up in Castlesea Bay in February 2007 after drowning in illegal salmon nets. Below that picture is what remains above the shingle today, part of the skull, the rest probably damaged and removed by people and a line of bones which are the top of the vertebrae. I'd imagine that there is also flesh and blubber still below the shingle.

The other pictures are self explanatory and I included the one of the Gannets which have probably flown from the Bass Rock and are on their way to Montrose Bay or further to feed. The picture appears to show Gannets of different ages given the colour of the wing featers.

Castlesea Bay, Auchmithie

Humpback Whale, February 2007

Humpback Whale Skeleton, June 2011

Kittiwakes with two chicks






Shags, one with a tag, SJS

Guillemots, surely they can't have eggs on this sloping ledge

Razorbill, Castlesea Bay Auchmithie

Yellowhammer

Gannets heading for Montrose Bay

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