Little Stint, Holly Blue and Red-throated Divers

A catch up after a computer problem where the consequences were very nearly dire, including a BitLocker restart and Windows install, with help and instructions through my phone browser!   

Little Stint at West Links, Arbroath, seconds later a dog flushed it

Black-tailed Godwits, West Links

Arbroath Cenotaph, photo from West Links play park

Lesser Black-backed Gull with three hungry juveniles

Lost them!

Just one Mediterranean Gull after another dog flushed most of the birds

Common Darter Dragonfly male at Murton

Holly Blue Butterfly, also Murton

Large Yellow Underwing Moth, Gladstone Hide

Gannet, a test for all the Shearwaters that didn't appear

Red-throated Diver adult still showing breeding plumage

Not this one

One of three flocks totaling more than 100 birds 

Sanderling

Part of a flock of Sanderlings

Dunlin juveniles

Greenshank over the pool to the south of North Esk estuary

Plus these three and two more

Juvenile Ringed Plover

Goosander on the North Esk

Moulting Stonechat

Whitethroat at the Kinnaber dump!

Painted Lady Butterfly

Gyrocopter flying from Montrose Airfield

Montrose Lifeboat

Bar-tailed Godwit at Westhaven Harbour

Green Sandpipers, Ruff and Snipe

More of a Vlog than Blog as I've built up a few videos over the past week. I had my Rota visit to Murton to do the Webs count, and my East Haven Webs without a camera. It was just my luck at East Haven that Olive found an Osprey fishing near the tideline which is the first record of one on my Webs! 

Later and travelling light, with just my scope and Nikon P1000, I took a number of videos at Montrose Basin. When I say a number, it was 23, which after viewing at home I chose the best ones and cropped some, and used a steadying tool to remove motion caused by the wind. Some of the videos were 270 metres out, the Pink-footed Geese film maybe more.

Green Sandpiper, Murton NR      Roe Deer strange behaviour      Roe Deer 3 metres from hide      Snipe and sleeping Green Sandpiper

Ruff, 5 at the Lurgies      Greenshank, Old Harbour      Pink-footed Geese over-summering at Montrose Basin 

Canada Goose with part leucistic head      Ruff single      Red Admiral Butterfly, my garden

Green Sandpiper, Gladstone Hide Murton NR, a second visit to do my Webs, and with a longer lens

BirdNET-Pi - Murton. I think this is an audio tool which constantly records and analysis bird song and calls

Lapwing

Red Admiral underwing in the garden

upperwing

Long-tailed Tits, very rare in my garden, I must clean the windows for clearer photos!

Next Generation Kittiwakes

   
Photos from Arbroath Cliffs and Keptie Pond. Only a few butterflies along the cliff path, but two of them were Graylings. The videos are from my garden.

Peacock Butterfly        Painted Ladies, filmed too close        Large Whites

I was surprised at how many Kittiwakes were still on nests, with many juveniles stretching their wings, and more flying circuits around the Mariners Grave and out to sea.

Previous Kittiwakes video     

Grayling Butterfly, I couldn't get a position for a good photo without risking falling over the cliff edge, then it was flushed by walkers. Photo from an 800mm lens, not ideal...

Juvenile Kittiwakes at Arbroath Cliffs

Fulmar at Arbroath Cliffs

Common Terns

Keptie Pond Brown Rat

Heron

Jackdaw

Lesser black-backed Gull

From Gemini search.

"The turtle you are seeing is a known local resident of Keptie Pond, Arbroath. Identified by ecologists as a Chinese softshell turtle (or a similar non-native softshell variant), this predatory reptile is approximately 18 inches long and is widely understood to have been an illegally abandoned exotic pet. Because it has successfully survived for several years by brumating (hibernating) in the pond's winter mud, it has adapted to the local environment, frequently basking on the central island during warmer spells".