Again I just couldn't get photos of Swifts which did their best by flying low over the main street in Edzell, Olive was hiding in the car pretending not to be with me!
A Spotted Flycatcher was feeding fledged young at Invermark and obliged by sitting briefly in a small tree.
Eventually a reported Mediterranean Gull turned up at 2045 to join the gulls and a few waders at West Links.
Mediterranean Gull, click here for video
The cat previously scooted, the device is doing its job, click here
Mediterranean Gull 1st summer West Links, Arbroath
Adult Med Gull for comparison, added on July 14th, photo from same site
Spotted Flycatcher, Invermark, Glenesk
Swift in Edzell, I nearly got run over when I strayed into the main street trying to keep up with the flock of around six birds. No light again and having to over-expose just to get something
First returning Dunlin I've seen so far, this one at West Links, Arbroath
Curlew
Oystercatcher, with a nest on Milimia Pizza
These Stock Doves appear nightly in front of the playpark at West Links but fly in from behind me so I don't see them till too late
Common Gull
Common Gull
Juvenile Black-headed Gull
Adult Black-headed Gull
Carrion Crow, West Links. A few have the white patches on the wing, one is very obvious
Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary at Loch Lee
Small Heath Butterfly
Chimney Sweeper Moth, Invernmark
Starling sunbathing in my garden
Goosander with 8 juveniles, at the Lurgies
Lesser Black-backed Gull, West Links. I haven't managed to photograph the one coming occasionaly to my garden yet
Blackbird, probably the one that chases Sparrowhawks!
A late posting of this Willow Warbler at the Lurgies