Yellow-browed Warblers everywhere, but none here to view

Although it was a day for Yellow-browed Warblers on Sunday, as expected I never got a photo with a whole bird or clear shot of any. I had one with no beak another of a rump and one with a shadow across the yellow brow! At least I did see some as did Olive.

A lucky break later when we arrived at the Bank of Scotland Hide at Montrose Basin SWT and immediately saw a Water Rail followed by a Kingfisher minutes later. The photos I like the most are the Starling sequence with one of the many ringed birds to be found around Montrose.

Kingfisher at the Bank of Scotland Hide at Montrose Basin SWT, a bit more colourful than actual due to the removal of the shadow from the ever lower sun

Carefully scanning for a fish

One of at least two Water Rails but they seldom stray from the reeds and if they do they stay in the shadowy margins or sprint across the open areas

Canada Geese with what appears to be a feral/hydrid Greylag amongst them

One of Ben's Starlings " yellow HM" at Montrose Beach, I've included the full sequence of drinking from the puddle

A Silver Y moth at Castlesea Gulley where there were three Yellow-browed Warblers which weren't so easy to photograph

A view from Barry Buddon west to Monifieth and Dundee from last week