Black Guillemot at Scurdie Ness

After a long walk surveying Corn Buntings I decided to take it easy and sit on the rocks at Scurdie Ness hoping to see a Skua or some Gannets feeding close in and there it was, a Black Guillemot a bird I've never seen before. Just after texting the report out I found a new way to lose a bird, it was flushed by a school of dolphins. Luckily it was re-located at Mains of Usan and its last location was back at Scurdie. Also other birds from Scurdie and some from the early morning Corn Bunting surveys.


Black Guillemot, but distant, for video click here

Black Guillemot, far out baby, and it was...........

This Common Tern used the post as a perch just like a Kestrel and dropped down to take a sand eel

Eider, after being spooked by the dolphins

Meadow Pipit not happy about me being near its nest so I moved on

A "ringed" Ringed Plover, one of a pair which I suspect have new chicks hiding in the rocks

Sedge Warbler on the track to the lighthouse

Summer plumage Turnstones, returning or I think they may not have left

Linnet from one of my surveys

Skylark from the other survey

Mallard ducklings, they look good enough to eat and something probably will