Scaup, Pintails, Red-throated Diver and sun at Montrose Basin

A day at Montrose Basin and it was sunny and yet I spent a lot of my time in the Wigeon Hide watching the waders and ducks. Elsewhere I managed to find a Scaup and was surprised by a Red-throated Diver. The poor photos of the Dunnock at the bottom of this post show some kind of growth on its face and eye?

Scaup Drake video, click here,      Pintails video, click here,

Scaup drake at Maryton Ditch but distant

Red-throated Diver also Maryton

Pintails near Rossie Mills

Wigeon spooked by a Peregrine at the Wigeon Hide and can you spot another duck species?

Buzzard

This Dunnock at the Twite feeding station appears to have growths on the bridge of its beak and its left eye

Doesn't look healthy and I got quite close for a Dunnock