Bar-tailed Godwit Fest - Arbroath Coast

I don't get many chances to get photos of Bar-tailed Godwits so when two hung around this week at West Links, Arbroath I was happy to have got a variety. Then, today before I had posted any I found another at Victoria Park, much, much closer, so I've posted today's first and further down the West Links ones.
Also below are, Dunlin, Curlew, Ringed Plover, Knot, Pied Wagtail, Turnstone, Redshank, Collared Dove, Carrion Crow and another Painted Lady that flew around my ladder when I was painting.
Lastly at the foot I've posted some ringed birds, the gulls took some getting and the Sandwich Terns were accidental, so I'll have another look this weekend.

Bar-tailed Godwits, moulting adult male with juvenile, West Links, click here for video

Juvenile Godwits in better light, click here

Moulting adult Bar-tailed Godwit, ckick here

Bar-tailed Godwit at Victoria Park, Arbroath on a stormy afternoon, when I didn't have a jacket, fool!

Feeding along the tide line and photographed from the sea wall

Curlew, Victoria Park, Arbroath

Dunlin, Ringed Plover adult, Ringed Plover juvenile

Turnstone, these are rapidly losing their breeding plumage

Redshank

Pied Wagtail juvenile

Sandwich Terns, Whiting Ness, Arbroath

Dunlin on a dark background at West Links on Wednesday

Knot, West Links on Thursday

The Knot don't stay long as the tide rises

An interlude during my painting excursion on Monday and Tuesday when I painted my dormers, did I mnetion Olive's dormers and roofline too!

I published this one from Wednesday as it clearly shows the bar-tail

This one appears to be a moulting adult male (Bar-tailed Godwit). Photos taken near sunset, hence the colours are saturated

Juvenile

Wednesday still at West Links

I haven't had a Collared Dove in my garden for years, and this one turned up when I was on the roof with my hands covered in paint. Seemed like the right time for a break and it stayed around long enough for three photos, not from the roof

If you throw chips out of your car at Victoria Park, or elsewhere, then don't complain when gulls and crows think it's Ok to help themselves when you're not looking!!

Birds below with darvic colour rings, gulls at West Links, Terns at Whiting Ness

Black-headed Gull, green JHA3

Black-headed Gull, green JK24

Black-headed Gull, yellow 2AY0

Black-headed Gull, yellow 2EH5

Sandwich Tern, white UVA

Sandwich Tern, dark green EDN

Peregrine at Barry Buddon

Another juvenile Peregrine, but I'm going to ask whether it could be a Hobby, previous Peregrine juvenile photos are very similar, but less brown and not so thin. There are Hobby and Peregrine photos of juveniles on Birdguides that are very similar to this bird which hasn't helped. It was seen just long enough to grab a few photos as it passed by at Barry Buddon, flying along the beach! 
NOT a Hobby, just another young Peregrine, and to confirm I found some old photos of mine with it's twin!!

Also a mixture of birds and insects. Geese and Greenshanks at the Lurgies, Dragonflies and Sand Martins at Murton and some scat!

Little Gull juvenile, West Links, Arbroath, click here for video

Peregrine juvenile, Barry Buddon

Wheatear juvenile heading south at Barry Buddon

Lesser Black-backed Gull juveniles at Barry Burn mouth, the adult was more wary of a dog and flew off, these followed soon after

Lorna's flowers

One of the many Peacock butterflies at Barry Buddon

Upper and underwing of the Peacock

Dogs and Sandwich Terns don't mix well, also Common and Arctic Terns, and Kittiwakes at Barry Buddon in a large flock

Small White butterfly

Common Field Grasshopper 

Day flying moth species

Linnet juvenile at the Lurgies

At least 400 Canada Geese at the Lurgies just now. Note the smaller birds which weren't so obvious when on the ground

Greenshanks, Maryton Ditch

Common Darter male at Murton

It seemed a bit early for the Rowan berries at Murton

Juvenile Sand Martin, still a dozen nests occupied at Murton

Yellowhammer, sitting at the viewpoint of course

I think this is Fox scat, unless someone has been walking a dog at Murton which isn't allowed

August Webs Photos

By the time I managed to get to my Easthaven Webs this month it was later in the day on Sunday, but the sun was at my back so I took my camera, success! I've added photos in the order they appear in the Webs records with a brief message below some of them.  

The videos below are original HD compressed to SD as they were taken at distance and digital zoom was used, I'll experiment with this, the alternative was viewing at 50% which I did, but others may not. See how it goes, close ups in good light will continue in HD.

Whimbrel video, click here to view in Flickr,

Bar-tailed Godwit video, click here

Knot, and others video at Montrose Basin, click here

Black-tailed Godwits, Maryton Ditch, Montrose, click for video

Arctic Tern adult

Bar-tailed Godwit

Bar-tailed Godwit

Black-tailed Godwits, another was cropped out. Not a bird seen commonly at Easthaven

Black-tailed Godwits in the ever lower and orange sunlight near dusk

Common Gull juvenile, lots of these about just now

Knot, the total count was an impressive 73 birds

Knot, with one bird still showing its breeding colours, photo bombed by a Sanderling

Knot

Redshank

Ringed Plover adult

Ringed Plover juvenile

Ringed Plover juvenile

Sanderlings

Sanderlings

Turnstone adult

Turnstone juvenile

Turnstone adult

Turnstones, adult still in breeding plumage and a fresh juvenile

Wheatear on it's way south

Whimbrel, one of two birds near to Easthaven, this one gave itself away when it called