Long-tailed Duck at the Lurgies

Just on the off-chance that a Long-tailed Duck I'd seen on Saturday near Montrose Railway Station might have moved upstream, I went to where I'd seen this species before and it turned up, or so I thought. I've just looked at Saturday's bird and it is an adult, so there's at least two in the Basin just now. 

A few others from the Lurgies and Mains of Dun. I'm going to have to get a good Twite photo soon and that's likely to be on a cold day when they're hungry. Or maybe I'll not bother............

Long-tailed Duck juvenile, much less white around they eye and head than a female, seen from the Lurgies path, upstream from the Slunks

Twite and Linnet for comparison, Twite with yellow beak, the Linnet grey. It was a better photo before it was "googled", and I can't find out if it's possible to stop these being brightend and sharpened!

Twite

Cormorant

The Lurgies heavy-weight, the Aberdeen-Angus bull which has "looked after" the cows in the field all summer