Last Post (from Montreathmont)

My hide rota week is now over so I'm posting some more birds from Thursday during the gloomy, stormy conditions. All are high iso photos but the close proximity achieved by having the camera poking through a small gap in the camouflage webbing balances the iso out.

I do have some video to post but Flickr is being upgraded and it's taking longer than expected........I've put it on YouTube

Brambling at close range, click here for YouTube video, (UHD edited to HD 30fps)

Male Siskin, click here for HD video (if selected)      Female Siskin, click here for HD video

"Rural" Fox video, its distracted by someone snoring (not me), click here for camera trap video

I wonder if this could be the Fox I saw with a cub while Corn Bunting surveying in 2018. A neighbour reckons it travels a route each night which puts it very close to the field I saw the foxes in.

Blue Tit

First of four Brambling photos

Same one

The second one

Coal Tit with metal ring, hope someone gets a photo of all of the numbers

Great Tit

Lesser Redpoll

Lesser Redpoll

Robin, unusually there are at least three around and sometimes two appear to get on

Male Siskin

Female Yellowhammer

Male Yellowhammer

First Lesser Black-backed Gull at Keptie Pond this year

No sign of the Iceland Gull at Victoria Park and elsewhere, but 74 Oystercatchers on the breakwater at Inchcape, another 43 at Victoria Park where around 120 Curlew have been seen each day this week. Seems to be more Turnstones, Redshanks, and earlier this week a few Golden Plover