Wednesday 12 August 2015

Some waders, a Little Egret and early migration, summers over (before it started)

The first photo appears to show a grey Redshank and I'm assuming it's leucistic or has some other odd mutation but what do I know! It did look the same through binoculars and isn't a camera or light error.
The Little Egret was pretty far away and I'm surprised I got a photo worth posting and the Wheatears, there were two just wouldn't allow me to get close except for the one shot I got below.

At high tide at Rossie Spit large numbers of waders mostly Lapwings, Redshank, Black-tailed Godwits, Oystercatchers and Dunlin were seen but no Curlew Sandpipers or Little Stints which were my target birds there today.


A grey Redshank!!!


Little Egret, Montrose Basin


Wheatear on its way south..........


Golden Plover, Whiting Ness, Arbroath


Knot, Whiting Ness


Juvenile Ringed Plover, West Links, Arbroath


Great Black-backed Gull with a mackerel, the tail missing, probably stolen from an angler and swallowed whole two seconds after this photo.






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