July 2017

Back to last years review, unless you really want to see more Iceland Gull photos. Yesterday the gull was following a plough in the field next to the Cliffburn Hotel in Arbroath but it and the Herring Gulls didn't like anyone walking past or even a car stopping. Later when I threw down some bread crusts at Victoria Park the same birds were fighting over the bread only metres from my feet!

Sea birds very much to the fore during July, by then everything else had disappeared into the foliage.

King Eider drake at Murcar, click here for video             Med Gull in Arbroath, click here for video

Fulmar at Fowlsheugh NR near Stonehaven. Currently Fulmars have been seen on the cliffs at Auchmithie, St Cyrus and in Lunan Bay

Gannet at Scurdie Ness, Montrose

Mediterranean Gull at West Links, Arbroath. One seen late in the year around Arbroath so worth checking through the Black-headed Gull roosts

Puffins at Fowlsheugh

Razorbill and Guillemot at Fowlsheugh

Mum and kids, (except I've cropped out Mum, doh!) Red-breasted Mergansers at the Lurgies

Stock Dove on the wires behind the But,n,Ben in Auchmithie

An ever elusive Swift seen from my garden in a brief high speed pass

The first Collared Dove I've had in the garden for a few years

I'd thrown some bread over the sea wall which of course blew back on the pavement which didn't put the gulls off at all. One of a few photos that didn't have other gulls fighting over the bread