Dreich and windy!

The weather hasn't been kind and I've been busy (mostly doing nothing according to Olive) but I thought these from Murton could be an opening taster for the winter ahead. I also spent a wasted afternoon at Maryton Ditch and could only find a few Dunlin and Ringed Plover at the gull roost at the West Links in Arbroath.

If it's not a Scaup then it's a very good lookalike. At Murton last Friday I believe

Gadwall drake

Gadwall pair

One of a few Stock Doves flying around the basin at Maryton Ditch, everything else was either too far away or like the Pink-footed Geese feeding in fields waiting for dusk and low tide

Curlew, also at Maryton

Juvenile Ringed Plover at the gull roost, Arbroath