Auchmithie Stonechats, Fulmars and Maw Skelly

A wee bit more light today and a trip to Auchmithie where 36 Fulmars were on the cliff ledges and on my way home I took a few late afternoon photos in light where I shouldn't have bothered but at least I learned the limits of my new lens.

Happy families in Fulmar town

Difficult to say which two are the pair and which is the infiltrator

Maw Skelly just north of Auchmithie Harbour, if I'd manged to get a bit more of the rock I think you'd see what I saw, that the rock looks like an old woman, the fisher wives that I can remember from my childhood

A singing Robin at Auchmithie

Female Stonechat at Auchmithie, I can't recall seeing Stonechats there before. I later found the male on the beach below catching flies

Late afternoon photos of the Curlews at Victoria Park, Arbroath as they left the beach to go inland as the tide rose

This Eider drake was photographed during the cold, grim and windy weather lately and I'm surprised by the quality given the circumstances

I can't say for sure but I think the injury on this Feral Pigeon's neck looks like the work of a Sparrowhawk. Close inspection of the original photo shows two holes nearer the head and a shallower hole and scrape at the other end of the wound. It seems to have survived but I may yet find it dead in the garden

Saw this guy digging up Victoria Park repeatedly as he used his metal detector, at the same time workers were building a fence to stop local drivers driving on the same grass. Don't assume it's the youth driving and parking on the grass though, most culprits were older people walking dogs or having picnics. Maybe their legs don't work!