Grey Plovers having a "foam party" on the beach

In between my many chores I sneaked out to Elliot hoping to find the Grey Plovers below and on the way back checked Keptie Pond and Whiting Ness where two Snow Bunting were still around. There could have been more but they were quite far into the field and difficult to see in the stubble.

Grey Plovers, not snow but foam on the beach

Redshank

Still at Whiting Ness, this Herring Gull is a constant and may be attracted to food discarded after dark by "courting couples"

One of many Jackdaws at Keptie Pond, Arbroath

Scaup, Pintails, Red-throated Diver and sun at Montrose Basin

A day at Montrose Basin and it was sunny and yet I spent a lot of my time in the Wigeon Hide watching the waders and ducks. Elsewhere I managed to find a Scaup and was surprised by a Red-throated Diver. The poor photos of the Dunnock at the bottom of this post show some kind of growth on its face and eye?

Scaup Drake video, click here,      Pintails video, click here,

Scaup drake at Maryton Ditch but distant

Red-throated Diver also Maryton

Pintails near Rossie Mills

Wigeon spooked by a Peregrine at the Wigeon Hide and can you spot another duck species?

Buzzard

This Dunnock at the Twite feeding station appears to have growths on the bridge of its beak and its left eye

Doesn't look healthy and I got quite close for a Dunnock