Year Review - July 2016

Usually a quiet month July and this was no exception and many birds appeared to be late with broods and numbers seemed to be affected by the cold weather at the start of the nesting season

Juvenile Cuckoo near Auchmithie, I thought this was early for July 6th

Puffin at Auchmithie

Spotted Flycatcher

A very confiding Stock Dove sitting on the wires behind the But'n'ben at Auchmithie

One of this years young Swallows near Kinnaber

Whitethroat

A male Yellowhammer at the ADBC hide

Red-breasted Merganser chicks on the South Esk upstream of the Slunks at Montrose Basin

Cinnabar Moth at Murton NR, Forfar

One of the first brood of House Sparrows in my garden