I was far to optimistic this morning and assumed it couldn't possibly rain as much as it eventually did. I spent a long time hiding in the Bank of Scotland Hide at Montrose Basin, then made a break when the light improved, only slightly!
I responded to a text and went to see Waxwings at Victoria Bridge, Montrose, they'd gone and all that was left was a big flock of Starlings. Undaunted I went to Lower Craigo Street where 43 Waxwings, no doubt the ones I was looking had relocated.
On the way home I had another look for white gulls at Victoria Park in Arbroath, and arrived when someone had put out pink suet pellets for the gulls. That would have attracted a juvenile Iceland but hadn't, and a scan of the sea for a Glaucous also found nothing. It's early yet and they'll turn up, but will they stay long enough to be seen?
The berries won't last long with 43 hungry Waxwings feeding in the rain this afternoon
Adult Herring Gull with fishing line or string acting like a snare, and has cut into the skin on the lower leg. Likely to lose the foot!
The only time it put the foot down, and reluctantly. Brightened by removing the shadow to get some kind of view of the crows, failed!
Great Black-backed Gull, 4th winter
Great Black-backed Gull, 4th winter