Keptie Pond, Arbroath

Predation of Mallard, Coot and Moorhen young seems to be a big problem and I couldn't find the two ducklings from Tuesday and three Coots had two young each and one Moorhen had one. A single Sedge warbler, a Willow Warbler, a Wren and a Dunnock were seen this week. There were 23 Herring Gulls and 7 Lesser Black-backed Gulls on the pond today.

Coot chicks, they're not pretty

Some kind of hybrid domestic duck I presume? There were another two  which appeared paired, all have turned up this week.