The return of the Auks

A social walk today with Olive who not surprisingly got bored as the good light meant I found many photo opportunities, or was it opportunities to muck up some good photos.............

We started with a walk along to the north end of the St Cyrus NNR where all the usual suspects showed well including, Ravens, Peregrines, Buzzards, a Kestrel, two pairs of Stonechats and a pair of Rock Pipits. We moved on to the north at Fowlsheugh an RSPB clifftop reserve in the hope that the auks had come onshore and found a mixture of at least 5,000 Razorbills and Guillemots with a few Shags and four large rafts of Kittiwakes, maybe 800 birds

Kestrel female at the north end of St Cyrus Beach

Peregrine also at St Cyrus, photo from the designated path

Razorbill at Fowlsheugh, one of perhaps 5,000 auks on the cliffs or the water nearby

Razorbill

Guillemot

Roe Deer from the car park at Fowlsheugh