From May 17th 2019
Think of these photos as a test of my set up of the new PC and monitor, and be ready for much tweaking in other posts to come until I'm happy with the brightness and colours. Text descriptions are below each photo.
A Garden Warbler heard then seen at Murton, unfortunately I'd set up the camera for flight shots and this was well over-exposed. An annoyingly common error. I'm pretty sure I could hear a second bird on the bank between the two main ponds
Cinnabar Moth, first this season for me
Female Common Blue Damselfly, brown variant
Common Tern, flying over the road bridge between Rossie Island and Montrose. Seen while doing an Urban Gull survey on a randomly selected grid, most of this one is in Montrose Basin. One Herring Gull nest was seen on chimney pots on Rossie Island, even the closed hospital didn't have any. Perhaps it's a sign of Angus Council's nest removal service and policy!
NOTE, the nest removal scheme has been stopped due to new regulations brought in by SNH which removed all gull species from General Licences.
Oystercatcher, also flying over the bridge
Back home where I often sit in the garden hoping something unusual arrives. This Blue Tit is a regular and posed nicely
This normally shy Yellowhammer didn't see me as it flew in. He's been visiting my garden since the start of March when there were five around, now just him and a female. This is very unusual as I only see them when there's snow on the ground
The Starlings must be feeding young as they've started visiting daily, it will soon be very noisy when the fledglings turn up. This bird looks to have Hawthorn Flies in its beak
A pwoud looking bird as Sir Alex might say
I can't tell if this one has grass or food, maybe renewing some nest material
Caught as it flew from a neighbours roof
Always one of the last birds to go to roost and very approachable
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