Young Birder Bags Peregrine

Once it was sunny and without showers, that was Thursday last week I believe. Anyway, since then I've been to St Cyrus with grandkids, Whiting Ness and Murton NR where I've seen a Lizard, a Peregrine, another Roseate Tern, a Gull with a fish, a Tern a with fish, and a Dragonfly with a fly! Highlight was when Faith photographed her first bird, a Peregrine, wow! Lowlight was the sd card got corrupted and I only managed to rescue one of her photos of the Peregrine. I'm sure she had a better one but this one below is good from the path, with the bird almost on the cliff top.

Roseate Tern at Whiting Ness, click here for video

Common Darter male Dragonfly, breathing! click here for video

2nd summer Great Black-backed Gull, what a beak, click for video

Faith's Peregrine juvenile, taken with an old Lumix bridge camera, FZ45 I believe

Common Lizard at St Cyrus on a breezy but warm day, just the one this time, other years as many as five

Herring Gull with a freshly caught flounder at St Cyrus beach

The one remaining Peregrine juvenile from a successful brood of three, the other two are already wandering, I was told. Can you spot it?

This might help answer the question above

Sandwich Tern with a sand eel or sprat

Sandwich Tern

Black-headed Gull

Roseate Tern, dead centre in the photo, seen briefly near high tide at Whiting Ness on 14/8/2019. Canon SX60

Same Roseate Tern

The very loyal and long staying Herring Gull at Whiting Ness. Yellow ring T:524, holds one of the best territories at Victoria Park, Arbroath. Most chips, pizza, bread and ice cream is eaten there, and the gull doesn't terrorise anyone

Same Herring Gull

Common Darter Dragonfly male at Murton NR

With its lunch, a fly of some sort

I think this is an immature male Common Darter, yet to achieve full colour

This hybrid which I discussed before has returned to Murton for at least its third year. I can't recall its probable heritage, but certainly Canada Goose and perhaps Greylag given the company it keeps

Lapwing at Murton NR, one of perhaps 300 or more, none considered coming close to any of the hides