Iceland Gull and the RNLI

Another dull day so it needed to be a white gull and luckily someone reported two at Whiting Ness at the start of the cliffs at Arbroath. Probably the same Iceland Gull I've posted before. Also a couple of shots of the RNLI Rib in the harbour mouth.

The first time I've seen this Iceland Gull for a while, unless perhaps it's not the same one that was hanging around near Whiting Ness before and after Christmas

Same bird

I'd looked through all of the gulls sitting on the wind swept rocks and turned around to see the Iceland Gull (1st winter) on the grass behind me, pantomime or what!

Training or playing, maybe both. Arbroath Inshore Lifeboat

I didn't see how far out to sea they'd been

Shag, very close in at Whiting Ness

Shag, I think it wanted to roost on the ramp but there were people walking past even in the cold wind

I counted 43 Purple Sandpipers in this photo taken near the West Breakwater at Inchcape Park, Arbroath. Recently in better conditions I saw 55 on the breakwater with the majority sitting on the seaward facing side