One of the last four Purple Sandpipers at Inchcape Park, Arbroath on Friday night, all flew off north at around 1930
Resting up, it's a long way to Svalbard or similar
It was late in the evening but the sandpipers obliged by letting me approach slowly, if I'd just brought a tripod
I spent an age trying to get photos of Sand Martins and Swallows at Bridge of Dun and these two were the best I could get while swinging around the very heavy lens. I didn't get a Swallow worth posting
They were often below the horizon and they have a habit of climbing and then an about turn
Whitethroat in some scrub near Bridge of Dun but very wary and these two photos were taken from a distance. They will get bolder when feeding young, I've had one land at my feet in the past, beating a caterpillar to death on a handy bit of wood
A rare sighting in the gorse bushes
Around 40 Common Terns on Annat Bank, Montrose. I note that the Tern raft is still on the beach in front of the SWT Centre. Need to get it out soon or they'll all be at McConnechies?
Dunnock, near Glaxo
Eider flying upstream into the basin
Another...
Great Black-backed Gull at Glaxo, waiting for the egg and chick bonanza, followed by the Eider duckling feast!
Linnet on the Glaxo perimeter fence
Common Gull, about a dozen immatures feeding near one of the Glaxo outflows
Photographed from the Bridge of Dun parapet, it was flying back and forth to a nest near the houses
Again from the bridge looking vertically down on to the shingle