Saturday 15 April 2017

Time for Glamour!!

Time for what many think of as the less glamorous but often more tenacious birds.

Roe Deer swimming in front of the Gullery Hide at Kinnordy, click here for video

Female Marsh Harrier, click here for video   awfi far oot!


Great Black-backed 1st winter at Keptie Pond adding to the two near adult birds seen a few days ago. Not good news if these "beasts" stay around till the ducklings are fledged, they have enough danger with the Lesser Black-backs and to a lesser extent the Herring Gulls


Olive thinks they are horrible, and she usually has impeccable taste......



A more subtle shot of this Herring Gull taken at the back of Gayfield while Arbroath FC were going down one nil to Edinburgh City!


A Grey Heron sitting on a partially built nest which was earlier abandoned at Keptie Pond, maybe a new bird or one of the original pair, the first attempt was a bit early


The future is orange it's said, the bright sun shining on these Redshank also at Gayfield



Some of 27 Sanderlings at Inchcape, Arbroath Harbour, just showing the transition to breeding plumage. Still a few Purple Sandpipers and Ringed Plover, no Sandwich Terns yet but three at Lunan Bay earlier today


Five days on the the Budgie in my garden is feeding well, bossing the Tree Sparrows, reacting to alarms and flying with much more vigour and has been wandering a bit along the street. I think it roosts in a Cotoneaster but it's amazing just how well it can disappear in the dappled light of the bushes


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