Spoonbill - Lurgies

I've been assuming that eventually one of the seven or more Spoonbills up at the Strathbeg/Ythan area would turn up at Montrose Basin, and tonight one did. I hope it stays to let people see it.

Spoonbill video, click here to play

Spoonbill, flew into the basin at the Lurgies on Monday evening and landed out on the mud to feed, never near

Red-breasted Merganser, eight around tonight

Cropped out of a photo of three