Having never seen Bar-headed Geese before and since it was still sunny this late in September I ventured to Kinnordy Loch where five had flown in with the Canada Geese. Fortunately the Bar-heads weren't put off by the strimming of the reedbeds which will continue on Thursdays for the next few weeks. Two Marsh Harriers were also showing well but a bit distant and a difference in their plumage posed a question especially as the male looking one started collecting nest building material!
Bar-headed Geese video at Kinnordy, click here,
Bar-headed Goose, one of the better looking goose species
They should be flying over the Himalayas but Kinnordy Castle will have to do
Very distant Common Scoter at Lunan Bay
Velvet Scoter
Dunlin at Elliot
Knot, a rarer visitor at Elliot
Sanderling, Elliot
A young Peregrine which appeared to have spooked the gulls and terns at Westhaven
Kittiwake at Lunan Bay
