Friday 11 September 2015

Bean Goose and Purple Sandpiper

Starting off with one I'd missed, I took a photos of some Pink-footed Geese at Montrose Basin and originally had missed the Bean Goose below, I had noticed it was different and forgot to check, note to self pay more attention.

The second photo is another bird returning to our shores for the winter (Saturday I believe), it's a Purple Sandpiper seen at Inchcape Park, Arbroath.

The remaining photos are from a recce I did at Carnoustie Golf Links and some from Carnoustie Beach mostly taken into the sun at high tide.



Bean Goose at Miss Erskine's Bank, Montrose Basin


Purple Sandpiper, Inchcape Park Arbroath


Carrion Crow, Carnoustie Golf Links ( and the photos following)


Lily


Closer........


Meadow Pipit


Peacock Butterfly


Red Admiral Butterfly


Teal


Tufted Duck


Bar-tailed Godwit, Carnoustie Beach, (and all below this)


Grey Wagtail


Knot


Pied Wagtail


Ringed Plover


Rock Pipit


Sanderling


Sanderling


Wheatear, going south




Kinnaber again, with the DSLR

A brighter and dry day so I went back to Kinnaber for a "good" Skua photo but they just didn't come close at all. I think I'd need to be there from half tide to full tide as after high tide it just goes quiet.



Arctic Skua with a Common Scoter as a bonus


Arctic Skua and Kittiwake, a blurred Red-throated Diver in the background


Last Skua photo unless one lands next to me!


Juvenile Common Tern


Red-throated Divers, adults


Sanderling


Small Copper



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