Sunday 25 September 2016

Gannets on the beach

A walk from Carnoustie to Elliot along the coast was interesting but not spectacular with the highlight two close encounters with juvenile Gannets. I managed to photograph both without getting close enough to worry them and just long enough to see their undamaged wings. I've found young Gannets before on this stretch at this time of year and they seem to recover and get back out to sea. With the tide getting near to low tide we didn't see anything rare or unusual but most of the waders we'd expect and a flock of Wigeon.


An uninjured, more likely just exhausted juvenile Gannet left high and dry on the beach


A second juvenile Gannet less than a mile from the first


Bar-tailed Godwit stretching while feeding in a shallow pool


Two of three Bar-tails around


Wheatear at Elliot which was one of four seen moving south along the beach, gone for another year...


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