Tuesday, 7 March 2017

Otters, Mum and her two kids

A once in a long time experience today when I found a mother Otter with two large cubs swimming freely in the middle of the day. Earlier on Montrose Basin I found my target for the day, some Scaup and just before I moved on the Little Egret flew in.


One of the cubs having a look at me when I was crawling along the path at the Lurgies


The same Otter wondering what I was doing, its mother had swum further upstream





Both of the young Otters


Still Waxwings around and this one is one of seven on the outskirts of Inverkeilor and the only photo I managed with the sun shining on it. Later in the day when the sun has moved around the sky the light would be great, today when I drove past they'd disappeared....


Little Egret flying up the far bank near Miss Erskine's Bank


The last I saw of the Egret as it dropped into this channel and out of view


Some of a flock of 51 Scaup but very far out on the Basin. Seen from Maryton Ditch


The first Lesser Black-backed Gull I've seen this year and was at the mouth of the Brothock Burn at Danger Point, Arbroath (The Old Brewhouse area)


It was getting late in the day when I came across this Great Black-backed Gull with one of two crabs it was guarding from the other smaller Herring Gulls


Now it was really poor light but I'm exploring the limits of the new lens


Cormorant from Montrose Basin




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