Social distancing, I've practiced it for years apparently! This helped greatly while walking in Crombie and Monikie Country Parks on Friday, and reassuringly everyone else kept a distance. We'd gone there so Olive could see her family in safety, they're a wild bunch although it appeared that Alfie the Cavapoo was the real one she was missing!
Later on my own, but with a fair number of distancing walkers around, I had a look at Arbroath Cliffs and found a very large number of Kittiwakes already on nest sites. A few Razorbills, Shags and Fulmars were also starting to take an interest, some already on the cliffs. All photos with large levels of zoom without the need to get close.
A single Shag on the rocks, click here for video
More Fulmars near Whiting Ness, click here
A moody Great Egret video, click here
When your Wren flies off too soon, stretch the video, with interesting results, click here
I've put the Kittiwakes first to emphasise this one, its got some heavy duty sea fishing line built into its nest!
A fair number of the Kittiwakes are nesting in places where they won't get any, or not much sunlight
There are more Fulmars on the cliffs than usually stay to nest
Most Razorbills were on the water and I think some may displace Kittiwakes from nest sites soon
A decent number of Shags nest along the cliffs towards Auchmithie, best seen from the sea
Black-headed Gull at Monikie
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Oystercatcher at Crombie
Also Crombie, a good place to walk a dog as there aren't many birds to scare and plenty of other dogs to sniff, bark at and even fight......
Dogs barking, the soundtrack of my life it seems
