Thursday 16 January 2020

If it's windy - then fly a Kite

No Green-winged Teal on Wednesday so I photographed what was there at Murton near Forfar. Further down this post are photos taken in this weeks storm from Gourdon where I'd hoped to find a Glaucous Gull but failed. I might post a video from my phone of the sea.

Gourdon on a stormy sea, click here for video  still 2 hours before high tide!

Wigeon feeding at Murton, click here     Teal drakes displaying, click here

Goldeneye displaying, click here           Goldeneye ducks, click here



Red Kite at Murton, seen while trying to find the Green-winged Teal again. The plan being to get a photo in better light but it had went very quickly to gloomy from sunny...


Photo from a fair bit away using my 2 times teleconverter



Goldeneye drake


Goldeneye duck


Incoming Goldeneye


The drake Teal were displaying, mostly to each other as many already had found the love of their lives, much like me, but I gave displaying in my late teens!


Teal drake





Teal pair


It walked past the Gladstone Hide so it got photographed


Yes, another gloomy day photo, this time a female Kestrel near the Twite feeding station at Montrose Basin


A short sequence showing a Herring Gull carefully plucking what looks like a piece of plastic from the big waves at Gourdon. The photos aren't in monochrome, at 1430 on a poor and very stormy day that's exactly what everything looked like!











Black-headed Gull feeding in the stormy waves which were crashing over the harbour side buildings at Gourdon





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