Friday 19 April 2019

Long time coming - Great Egret

Sorry, I seem to have neglected to post for some time, and I did have photos, just not very good though.

Photos from RSPB Strathbeg, Lochlee, Kinnordy and Ferryden. No photo or video of the two White-billed Divers I saw at Portsoy on Thursday, they were a fair bit out at sea. The Spoonbill reported at Strathbeg had just flown away when I arrived! The Avocet I looked for on the chance it might still be around at the Ythan wasn't!

Great White Egret at Strathbeg, click here for 2 minute video       click this for shorter video

Common Sandpiper, Lochlee, click here for video     Shovelers at Strathbeg, click here for video

Peregrine at Strathbeg, doesn't do much, click here


Great White Egret, seen from the Dunbar Hide at Loch of Strathbeg on Thursday. Canon SX60, the video will be better


The first Swallow I've seen this year that sat still for a few seconds. In this photo I think it's spotted a juvenile Peregrine I'd seen fly away from the wetlands in front of the RSPB Centre at Strathbeg


Looks thin, expected given the journey its just made



Not many Wheatears at Lochlee this week and always too far away and wary


This one looks bedraggled, and with his mate above they ranged over a large area of the hill and lochside


First Common Sandpiper for me this year. Photographed from a position where I was hidden amongst the lochside boulders, just not very well hidden


Crop of the one above





Arty shot of the Common Sandpiper


Song Thrush near the Invermark car park


I think these are Buzzard wing feathers which were consecutive and still held together. I found them at the foot of a wall which had a dead rabbit on it, did it jump up there and die? Why would anyone put a dead rabbit in a prominent place in an Angus Glen?



Still eight of these Greenfinches in my garden and Olive's not happy that they're eating her Goldfinch niger








Female Marsh Harrier on a dull day this week


Male Marsh Harrier, still a dull day


Shelduck drake, one of what looks like a pair at Murton NR


Shoveler drake at Loch of Kinnordy, his mate just out of shot behind reeds



Eider drake at Ferryden where numbers are building up



Teal at the Swamp Hide Kinnordy, seen while I searched for a Ruff that had been reported. It's still there this morning, Friday 19th


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