The Waders start to return...........

Some returning waders and summer visitors. The first is a Mediterranean Gull similar to our Black-headed Gull and usually hangs around with them. This bird may be the same one which spent a few months at Arbroath beaches in 2013.

Bar-tailed Godwits, Balmossie, Monifieth

Common Sandpiper, Montrose Basin

Gannet, Scurdie Ness Lighthouse

Goosander female in eclipse, Lurgies, Montrose Basin

Stonechat juvenile, Scurdie Ness

Whooper Swan, Montrose Basin. Left behind when migration took place, should be in Iceland now