Tuesday 18 July 2017

Gannets, passing not fishing

My last Corn Bunting survey today and to walk the stiffness out of my legs I went down to Scurdie Ness and sat on the rocks hoping something would fly by. The Gannets below were flying north and coming out of the sun so are all back-lit and with the exposure turned up in the camera. There were a few Sandwich Terns fishing offshore but no Common Terns today. A few Ringed Plover and returning Dunlin also made an appearance.


Adult Gannet


3rd year bird, (although I would have liked to have seen the upper wing)


Adult


Kittiwake


Sandwich Tern juvenile


Sedge Warbler fledgling


Whimbrel, Wren and a lost Doo

Nothing of note to report, my last Corn Bunting Survey of the season didn't turn up any extra birds and it looks like this years numbers are down, most likely due to crops being rotated and some cereal fields becoming isolated and others in new crops such as beans, potatoes and onions.


A Whimbrel at Whiting Ness, Arbroath on Monday evening but the tide wasn't coming in fast enough to bring it nearer before dusk


Looks like one of this years new Wrens at a local hide.


Yet another "homing pigeon" which has become just a pigeon, seen in my garden and on a neighbours roof. What I can see of its ring is SU17 but I think there must be more lettering


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