Thursday 28 March 2024

St Cyrus and Storm Babet - where's the new hide!

   
Very serious damage at St Cyrus where the North Esk enters the sea. I didn't have time to have a good look as a large rain cloud was to the north and coming my way. The whole of the estuary "pool" and the beach has been badly eroded and shingle is everywhere. I'll have a look from Kinnaber soon at close range, I wonder where the hide has ended up?

Not many birds around, just Linnets, two Skylarks, a Magpie, two Shelducks, a pair of Ravens and a single Peregrine. There may have been more to the north but a second shower was heading towards me.


Male Yellowhammer in the darkest spot in my garden



The walk leading to the new hide, I didn't know till this week when Ron told me it had been washed out to see by the floods




I reckon half of the walkway is left




The far bank looks even further away




Immediately in front of the remaining walkway




A panorama from my phone, gives an idea of the scale of change





Evidence that tank traps in either or both wars have been buried for a long time, I recall only one or two last year




A large bank of dark shingle has been left on the beach




Raven




Not the best predator to find when ground nesting birds are about to arrive

Thursday 21 March 2024

Historic day as Scottish Parliament votes through grouse moor licensing!


In the last few minutes, the Scottish Parliament (with the exception of the Scottish Tories) has voted overwhelmingly in support of the Wildlife Management & Muirburn Bill!


Click the pale blue links to get the full story from Raptor Persecution UK

Wildlife Management & Muirburn Bill goes through 30 Tories vote against, everyone else for








Shalimar

RSPB Scotland are appealing for information following the sudden, suspicious disappearance of a satellite-tagged Hen Harrier in Glen Esk in Angus.

The tag fitted to ‘Shalimar’ a young female Hen Harrier, which fledged from a nest on the National Trust for Scotland’s Mar Lodge Estate in Aberdeenshire last summer, was functioning as expected before data transmissions unexpectedly and suddenly stopped on 15 February.


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