RIP, the first of many no doubt

The male Sparrowhawk has returned and was seen in Olive's garden taking and plucking a juvenile House Sparrow, I eventually got the ring on a Starling, Swifts are occasionally coming in and two photos from Montrose Basin at low tide today.

RIP the Spuggie...........gone to be a Sparrowhawk chicks lunch nearby

A ringed Starling back in my garden, the first time I've seen it since the start of May. This time I've managed to read the metal ring and report it. Unusually it only has one colour ring having figured out how to remove the other two as a few birds do according to the ringer.

Still not a good Swift photo and they'll soon be gone again, just to dull and they're so fast

Black-headed Gull at the Lurgies with a small flounder

Only one Pink-footed Goose today but the other nine or ten may still be at Montrose Basin somewhere