Pink-footed Geese and Pintails, Montrose Basin

An hour in the seriously windswept Tayock Hide at Montrose Basin delivered the birds below, there would have been more without human disturbance.

Two videos in the links below, unfortunately I had my Z8 set up for HD instead of the usual UHD I use on my P1000, doh!

Pink-footed Geese, returned this week        Black-tailed Godwit

Pink-footed Goose, only a few ventured near to the Tayock Hide. A video sent to me from the Mallard Drive area showed hundreds widely spread across stubble fields

Pintails

One of the birds from above

Black-tailed Godwit

Same Godwit and the subject in the video above

Juvenile Grey Plover 210 metres north of the hide, photo from the hide

Juvenile Knot

Curlew

Greenshank

Oystercatcher on its way to wash something at the water's edge

Common Gull 2nd calendar year

Curlew

Why do people approach the hide and walk around the side to the front, which always flushes whatever they hope to see. There used to be screens at both sides which I think disappeared during covid...

Pectoral Sandpiper, St Cyrus NNR, on field flood

   
I was unaware that a flooded field at St Cyrus was a permanent feature and attracting migrating waders. A Pectoral Sandpiper was the rarest with a Little Stint, also Green Sandpiper, Greenshank, Ruff, Ringed Plover and Bar-tailed Godwits. Given the distance from the viewing point at a small tree, I decided videos at 2600mm - 3000mm was the best option, despite the windy conditions.

Other photos from Arbroath Harbour and my garden.

Pectoral Sandpiper, Little Stint, Greenshank and Ringed Plover - St Cyrus      Pectoral Sandpiper, most steady video 

Little Stint, in a sprint - actual speed      Pectoral Sandpiper and Greenshank      Bar-tailed Godwit, Maryton

Pectoral Sandpiper at St Cyrus, all three images are screenshots from the videos

Pectoral Sandpiper and Greenshank

Cormorant fishing in Arbroath Harbour

Oystercatcher at Danger Point, Arbroath

Rock Pipit on beach behind the Old Brewhouse

Male Sparrowhawk in my garden, no birds around for a week

A different Sparrowhawk flying over my garden, a female

Small White Butterfly

Common Drone Fly

Nettle-tap Moth (tiny)

Seven Spot Ladybird

Speckled Wood Butterfly

Wolf Spider species..

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

Goosanders, 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