Long-tailed Skua at Easthaven

After asking the experts and getting a concensus I've decided to post these juvenile Long-tailed Skua photos taken on my Webs count at the weekend. Also on the Webs were a first Grey Plover of the season, a Curlew Sandpiper and eight Bar-tailed Godwits. Elsewhere I eventually found the Semipalmated Sandpiper at the Ythan Estuary but just before high tide when it flew off to the wader roost with around 500 Dunlin. Needless to say we din't see the Humpback which did show but not where we were looking.

Juvenile Long-tailed Skua, Easthaven

Being harried by a larger Curlew

It didn't seem to bothered and just floated its way along the beach

Knot at the Ythan Estuary still showing breeding plumage and an injury to its head, perhaps from a Peregrine hunting further upstream from where the photo was taken

Knot, what the the one above this should look like by now, one of over a hundred downstream from the lifeboat shed

Something or somebody spooked this group seals on the north bank of the Ythan which then swam down the river into the sea. Another group just metres away stayed where they were?

Easthaven beastie, I think it's a Sea Louse of some kind. Does anyone know?

A Rock Pipit which landed close before it realised I was there. It was near the paddling pool in Arbroath while I looked for the Med Gull which was sitting on Chalmers roof again