Sunday Supplement

Just a few videos from my garden I thought some might like to see........ and some rescued photos

The Feral Pigeons keep disturbing the wee birds when I'm filming. The Vixen looks to be lactating, and once her young are out and about I won't see her again, unless she's the one from the den I know of?

Tree Sparrow family on their second visit to my garden, click here to play 

Yellowhammer and Chaffinch, I'm beginning to dislike the pigeons, click here 

Tree Sparrow fledgling, click here to play 

Nine minutes of my Vixen, 27 minutes were recorded, click here to play

A Fox cub from June 26th 2019, seen on a Corn Bunting Survey, no surveys taking place this year

Rock Pipit at St Ninian's Well (The Wishing Well) at Whiting Ness, Arbroath. These were photos I'd accidentally deleted, so I decided that as it's not the first time I've done that, I bought a card reader for my XQD card and recovered these and other photos with some clever software

Having a good bath in the depression where the water gathers, which is where the ladle sat when drinking the water was still safe, maybe!

Makes me wonder, did the Rock Pipits bathe here when I was a feral child roaming the coastline, most likely and I survived to tell the tale, so far......

Garden Warbler - 2019

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