Just in from Raptor Persecution, report from the RSPB, click the red link, Short-eared owl shooting
The video halfway down the report although 10 minutes long tells the story very well.
Pale-bellied Brent Goose in terrible light conditions
1200 pixels doesn't do this photo justice and I had to crop out some of the 97 Black-tailed Godwits I counted at Rossie Spit
Some of the flock above before they were flushed by a Sparrowhawk
Another Oystercatcher gloriously covered in mud at the Old Harbour
Redshank in an attempted reflection shot, failed due to the breeze
The Old Harbour Sparrowhawk, an adult almost flew into to me upstream of the Slunks on the Lurgies path on the same visit
I'm assuming this is the same ringed Black-headed Gull I've already posted and reported
Another reflection attempt
Arctic Skua at Scurdie Ness, well out at sea. A report this week tells of an 81% drop in breeding numbers in Scotland, thought to be related to sandeel shortages for the terns, guillemots and kittiwakes that the skuas pirate from
Cormorant at Scurdie Ness
Kittiwake juvenile, Scurdie Ness
A juvenile Ringed Plover photographed from the footway at Victoria Park, Arbroath
The first returning Purple Sandpiper at Inchcape Park, Arbroath
Sandwich Tern juvenile at Victoria Park
Same juvenile with two adults