Although I've mentioned the Whooper and Pink-foot I didn't get any photos but mentioned them due to their out of season status.
I'd dropped into the Lurgies on my way back from surveying "urban nesting gulls", a bit of a fools errand as the grids had been chosen at random. The Montrose grid was mostly mud, 90% was on the Basin, Edzell was mostly woodland and Brechin was 50% farmland. It appears that the Angus Council's free gull nest clearing service is fully used and successful, even unoccupied buildings with perfect conditions for nests weren't used. Even in Brechin where the grid included an industrial estate, abbotoir and sewage works I couldn't find a nest, I did find a racing pigeon which looked like a Peregrine kill which might explain the lack of nests.
Barnacle Goose on Montrose Basin, click here for Flickr video
Grey Wagtail fledged chick at Inchbare, click here for Flickr video
Barnacle Goose
Black-headed Gull, waiting for something to happen I start to photograph anything flying past
Shelduck, still a few pairs flying around which don't appear to be nesting yet
Eider drake, and for a change I can see the eye
Grey Wagtail chick, Inchbare (Canon SX60)
Sibling of the one above (also Canon SX60)
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