Hugh, Pugh and Barney the Shrew (Trumpton)

Photos from an Angus Coastal Festival walk along the golf links at Carnoustie where I found the unfortunate shrew below. Mind you they only live between 12 and 18 months, having a very fast metabolism and heart rate and need to eat their body weight or more each day. I know someone like that! Further down a mixture from Montrose Basin where the Navy scared everything off, Westhaven and a spug in my garden.

I believe this is a Pygmy Shrew, I measured it relative to the meal worm which was around 18mm after I had prematurely put the shrew on my garage roof and the size fits. It was also my first instinct so I'll go with that. The shrew was found dead on Carnoustie Golf Links and it put on the roof for the gulls or crows!

Mating Common Darter Dragonflies, the red one is the male

One of very few birds in the middle of the day at Carnoustie

Curlew at the Lurgies

Another Curlew at Westhaven

Dunlin at Westhaven

Pink-footed Geese at the Lurgies, an adult on the left, juvenile the right, if I've interpreted the neck markings correctly, and size

I still have a few House Sparrows showing a wee bit of juvenile gape at the beak base, more pronounced when viewed side on

Thank you Royal Navy, you flushed all of the birds at the Lurgies with a direct and very low flyover, come on it's a nature reserve!