Tuesday 12 March 2019

St Cyrus and the Arbroath Black Redstart

Photos from St Cyrus, all from the public path, and the cute Black Redstart in Arbroath. Remember many birds here are Schedule One protected and approaching them or their nests could result in them abandoning their nest and a visit to the Sheriff Court for you.


The long staying Black Redstart still at Inchcape Park, Arbroath. Photo with light behind me


Flushed by a very young child on the beach on its own! Now photographed into the failing light. Child's mother eventually turned up!!


Peregrine





Canon SX60, bird almost at the top of the cliff


Raven, couldn't get one without glare from the wing. always too far away from the public path. It is now the breeding season for many raptors and it's illegal to approach the birds. If you can't get a photo without disturbing rare birds then go to a falconry display, instead of the Sheriff Court!


Canon SX60, very top of cliff


Buzzard


Curlew numbers increasing around Arbroath, with 120 at Victoria Park, but this was the only one at Inchcape on Monday 

Scurdie Ness and Mains of Usan

Some photos from the coast, posted in alphabetical order. Just beginning to see a more spring like movement of birds, some paired, some courting and others flocking together before going off to breed.


I don't often see a Grey Partridge so I've posted this "into the sun" photo. This was one of a pair seen near Mains of Usan while on a search to confirm an unusual sighting, I didn't. Looks like I caught a swarm of flies in the shot, didn't seem warm enough for that!


This Oystercatcher at Mains of Usan has been injured, its leg looks broken and the skin and flesh have been stripped and exposed. Another Oystercatcher was dead on the beach!


Some of around 25 Purple Sandpipers at Scurdie Ness before they were flushed by a gull, then again by screaming children


As usual with a Turnstone, they do associate with Turnstones


One of two Red-breasted Mergansers at Scurdie


One of a pair of Ringed Plover, yellow flag 109


The second one of the pair, yellow flag 106


Note the flag number reads from the bottom up


Not a great photo of this solitary Rock Pipit


The only Skylark that stayed close enough for a good view. Seen near Mains of Usan with a flock of 200-300 Linnets


Sparrowhawk male, still trying hard in my garden but only one feather pile in the last few weeks. Photo through the windows again, the camera trap was removed due to the wind, the sensor was picking up every movement of the bushes

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