Great Skua at Scurdie Ness

No excuses for four photos of the Great Skua, they are hard to find and often far away. This one flew by close in when I had the camera set up for a photo of a Guillemot being splashed by the surge so the photos needed work.

Great Skua, Scurdie Ness Montrose

Guillemot, hard as nails I am!

Goosanders

114 Goosanders, and a few Eider. Not all in one photo but most are.

Meadow Brown

Arbroath Cliffs, still a few nesting sea birds around

Although most sea birds have already fledged their young there are still a few Fulmars and Kittiwakes with chicks at Arbroath Cliffs and at Whiting Ness nearby a variety of waders more easily seen before or after the high tide. A Tern roost also at the Ness had around 140 Sandwich Terns and a few Common Terns and on the Steeple Rock were eighty Curlew.

The House Martins still haven't fledged and today it looked like they might but all three (or are there more) were still in the nest at dusk.

Fulmar with large chick

Not known for its looks

My Mum loves me! 

Kittiwake juvenile

Six Spot Burnet Moth

Dunlin at Whiting Ness. Arbroath

Ringed Plover, Whiting Ness

House Martin chicks

Mum or Dad House Martin