A Beastie on the Beach..................

It looks like someone with an eye for art has carved out two eyes on the log in the first photo taken on the beach between Montrose and Kinnaber. I was surprised to see salmon fishing continuing on the North Esk at Kinnaber, I'd assumed as the coastal fishing had been stopped that the estuary would also have been. It's the same salmon stocks after all, and I'd always thought they were only allowed to net two thirds from one bank and then two thirds from the other. In the photo there is only a five metre gap left for the salmon to escape.

Beastie on the Beach

Moving upstream to start the sweep down river with one guy dragging the net from the bank the other creating an arc across the river and sweeping down to the team waiting downstream

Not much room to escape for the King of Fish!

Linnet male at Kinnaber sewage works car park

The first Swallow chick I've seen fledged this year, near Kinnaber

House Martin chicks, while watching these two characters on Friday night at around 2045 unexpectedly the larger of the two fledged the nest. I'll keep an eye on the nest again today to see if it returned or the smaller one fledged as well. No it didn't fledge, reviewing photos it appeared that three adult birds came into the nest at one time, two flew away and the third went in and that's what I'd seen leave.

A returning Goldeneye drake beginning to show some eclipse plumage at the Lurgies

One of the very wary Jays in Montreathmont in a brief gap between showers on Friday

Currently Olive's favourite species a Yellowhammer. I'm sure if the Goldfinches turn up in the garden they'll takeover