A mixture of birds from the Lurgies, many taken with the P1000, some are frames taken from video and others with my DSLR. The Spotted Redshank again, but it won't settle anywhere long.

Spotted Redshank, click here for video 

Great Egret video, click here

Red-breasted Merganser video, click here

Spotted Redshank, seen from the Lurgies path, but was in front of the Shelduck Hide a long way off

Unfortunately it was always distant and closer to the hide, the sun however would be in the wrong position. Both photos are frames taken from video

Great Egret feeding downstream from the Old Harbour (crop of a 125 zoom shot)

Think this is the original

This juvenile Pink-footed Goose didn't seem injured, maybe just tired after a long flight. It didn't fly off when approached but otherwise seemed Ok

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Curlew flypast caught me out

The young male Sparrowhawk circling over my garden

No Aurora photos so I tried the Moon out of an upstairs window

Thoosans o' Pink-footed Geese

   
Some video and photos from my garden, Montrose Basin and Lunan Bay, I need the sun back soon!

Seriously large flock of Pink-footed Geese arriving back from feeding, click here for video

Pink-footed Geese, incoming vortex at Montrose Basin, click here for video  

Spotted Redshank filmed on a dull morning and distant, click here 

Red-throated Diver at a busy Lunan Bay beach, click here  

Very distant Velvet Scoters, cropped from UHD, click here  

Just caught a House Sparrow which wasn't dead at this point, in my garden

Earlier a Starling lookout, failed

Red-throated Diver still in summer plumage

Little Egret

Grey Heron

Mars, photo from 63.932 million km

Pinkies, and outrageous zoom failures

   

A bit of a strong wind, or since I was at the Lurgies it felt like a gale, Friday morning and an early start. Emphasis on videos not quality, it's a record of what I saw that a David Attenborough commentary couldn't save!

Late News, Eagle removes tag and hides it in a sheet of lead, click here

Nikon Coolpix P1000 - I can see for miles, click here

Pink-footed Geese, increasing zoom levels, click here 

Spoonbill in flight, Lurgies, click here 

Spoonbill going for a stroll. click here 

Great Egret from 2300 metres, click here

Pink-footed Geese at Miss Erskine's Bank, Montrose Basin

Some came closer

Spoonbill with Canada, Greylag and Pink-footed Geese

Great White Egret from the Lurgies path, the bird is well to the east of the Wigeon Hide, 2.3km away

Curlew Sandpiper in front of Montrose Sailing Club

As yet to be identified Hoverfly in Morrisons car park Arbroath

Same Hoverfly

Pink-footed Geese Invasion

   
Huge influx of Pink-footed Geese at Montrose Basin on Wednesday 23/9/2020, most landed to the west of Maryton Ditch, reports of large numbers from elsewhere in Scotland. Meanwhile, the 9 Common Cranes which left Strathbeg, were seen over Aberdeen, are now (on Thursday) at Caerlaverock in the southwest.

Some videos I took of the Pinkies, and a Curlew Sandpiper from the sailing club at low tide, unfortunately it was flushed a bit too far out by vehicles on the beach.

Pink-footed Geese (my favourite one), click here for video

Pink-footed Geese, zoomed and panned a bit, click here

Pink-footed Geese, a long pan to show numbers and distribution, click here

Curlew Sandpiper filmed at 125 zoom from Montrose sailing Club, click here

Windy Webs count - East Haven

   
Some birds from my monthly Webs Count, a bit late but at least I got peace to do the count as it was a weekday and in a gale. I counted 17 Bar-tailed Godwits and 6 Grey Plovers, and 16 other species covered in a Webs list.

Grey Plover video, click here

Bar-tailed Godwits video, click here

Bar-tailed Godwit

Grey Plover

Grey plover juvenile

Yellow Wagtail to Minke Whale, little and large

   

Apologies if anyone was looking here for new posts, I've been housebound "babysitting" workmen doing essential repairs. Since then as you'll see below, I have been out, but still have many things to do at home over the next days now  the main work has been done.

This post was built with Google's new blog tool and I don't rate it over the old one, so it might take me some time to get to grips with it. The main dislike is the uploading of photos, so to save me some time I've just left these as Google decided to order them.

It's a long post with a Minke Whale at the end. Room yet for some video too.

   Yellow Wagtail at Hatton

Grey Wagtail on the Brothock Burn at Danger Point

Meadow Pipit at Hatton

New method for scaring birds at Tayock

Carrion Crow at Hatton

Dunlin, Hatton

Dunlin, Hatton

Hooded Crow at 200 metres into the sun near Laurencekirk, it's a constant in the area

Unidentified Hoverfly

Peacock Butterfly

Sanderling and Dunlin, Hatton

Common Snipe, Hatton

Starling, many hundreds at Hatton and on the beach

A late and mellow wasp

Rock Pipit, Hatton

Sanderlings, Hatton

Wheatear, Hatton

Grey Plover, just too far away, but good view of the underwing

Common Carder Bee in my garden

Common Carder Bee

Garden Snail, lots in my garden, that's where Olive "releases them" from her garden!

I'd guess this one is called Brian..........

Great Black-backed Gull near Mains of Usan with yellow darvic ring X-077

Olive's Robin, she's found that the Hedgehog is eating the mealworms she puts out for the Robin! Filmed last night on a trail cam

The Starlings stopped visiting for a while after we had a frequent Sparrowhawk coming in

This Angus calf at Mains of Usan was photographed to show the farmer so he/she could keep an eye on it, it was eating a length of rope on the foreshore!! 

A bit of a puzzle this one, at first from the shoreline I thought it was a Sandwich Tern but it's got red legs and when looked at it with the dropper tool the beak is actually fading from red to black, it has to be a Common Tern

Minke Whale, thought to be the carcass seen floating back and forth on the tide in the area between Scurdie Ness and Fishtown of Usan for some weeks