Shine a light - briefly at Lunan Bay

We did get a bit of sunshine on Thursday after a dull start and I managed to get out to Lunan Bay where I saw Long-tailed Ducks, Red-throated Divers, Common and Velvet Scoters, Shags, a large flock of Common Gulls, Sanderlings and Stonechats.

Shine a light on me! The low winter sun lighting up this Sanderling as it fed along the tide line

A smaller bird than you'd first think, especially when you see one fly along the beach at sand level

If the Sanderlings are "the little" then this guy is "the large". A Great Black-backed Gull, a beast of a gull no doubt

One of a pair of Stonechats seen along the dunes to the south of the Lunan. Even in early afternoon the sun is giving the Stonechat an orange glow, an hour later the light gave the gulls a similar hue

This Stonechat again one of a pair was near the hide

Earlier in the day just after sunrise there were a number of Pied Wagtails and Rock Pipits feeding at the beach side of Chalmers night club at West Links, Arbroath. No sign of the Med Gull but the tide was high and it had surely gone looking for breakfast inland.