Waxwings and a Sparrowhawk

Three more videos, this time uploaded with different parameters to YouTube. Also a couple of photos of a rarer visitor to my garden, a female Sparrowhawk (juvenile), already a big bird compared to the usual males we see. Finally two photos taken in a really gloomy corner at the Lurgies of what appears to be the only Brambling remaining from a high of fourteen.


Waxwings in Lower Craigo Street, Montrose on 2/11/2018, click here for video   13 birds were present

Twite on the Wigeon Hide track, Montrose Basin, click here for video

Pintails taken from the Wigeon Hide, click here for video  very poor light

Spotted by Olive when chasing Sparrows into a large Cotoneaster. Photo from an upstairs window

Then flushed by me when trying to get a photo while sneaking up my drive, failed

If I tried to make this Brambling any brighter the photos would just end up looking weird

I think this might be as high as 2500 iso