Glaucous Gull seen from the Old Brewhouse area at the mouth of the Brothock Burn which is where the Aberbrothock in our blog's name derives. Various versions and spelling have existed through the years before the current Arbroath.
There are very many Great Black-backed in the Harbour area just now, they are a bird which only used to be seen in poor winter weather when I was a young lad.....a while ago now. Today under the bridge at the boat yard a box of old lobster pot bait had been left it's assumed for the gulls and the GBB Gulls had taken charge of it, perhaps why so many stay around?
A Herring Gull parent with its bairn, they were waiting for a lobster fisherman who had thrown a fish for them to move back a bit and called in many of the gulls around while waiting.
Black-headed Gull on the "dock gates" which control the water level in the inner dock. Changed days now, they are operated with the press on a button. I remember when two large men with metal handles had to wind the gates open and closed and I'd been warned to stay away as someone had been killed by a swinging handle being rotated by the water pressure on the gate. Probably true but often stories at the harbour were invented or embellished to stop the feral kids like me from getting into trouble.
One of two working along the dunes at Kinnaber
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