Green Sandpipers, it was Ruff out there.........

Starting with a couple of shots of migrants which wouldn't play ball so the photos are just enough for ID. A few other photos from a quiet week when I spent time waiting for deliveries and "baby-sitting" a phantom, Olive's grandson who never ventured from his "cave", bedroom when I was there. Surgically attached to an Xbox apparently, aren't they all!

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Two of three Green Sandpipers in the scrape at the Lurgies on Tuesday. Having reported them I didn't venture near them, hence the shaky photo in strong wind

This Ruff was always far to far away for me, the whole width of the river and shingle between us, but after being flushed by a juvenile Peregrine my mate Ron got a photo when it landed near him on the Lurgies path

Sandwich Tern just after high tide at Victoria Park, Arbroath. Two other birds, a juvenile and adult were photographed with rings. Waiting for details

Incoming, then a squabble briefly as usual

Another ringed bird, J4U3, it's covered in mud in the photo. This Black-headed Gull at the Old Harbour has returned every year since 2013 at least. Ringed originally in Norway in 2012

Often thought of as a dull bird, this photo shows the detail of this Rock Pipits feathering. Caught in flight in the corner of the frame when it flew off from a rock, what else