Friday 21 August 2020

New garden first!

   
I can't remember seeing a Willow Warbler in my garden before, this one appeared briefly as I sat on the back door step watching the Starlings squabbling over broken fat balls. 

Further afield at the Lurgies, Maryton Ditch and Rossie Spit, all Montrose Basin, I found a Curlew Sandpiper at Maryton and a Brent Goose (pale-bellied) and 2 Little Terns at Rossie Spit, an adult and juvenile.

Brent Goose (pale-bellied) at Rossie Spit, click here for 250 metre plus video  

The roost flushed by a Peregrine, and why I didn't get a Little Tern video, click here  

Not the urban Canada Geese in city parks, but some of the flock at the Lurgies, click here for video  

An arty slow motion video of a juvenile Starling, click here  
the slow motion setting on my P1000 is effectively quarter speed, filmed at 120 fps, and I've edited it in software to half again. The drawback is the size on the video frames at 640 by 480.




Willow Warbler I think, unless someone can magic it into something more exotic. The throat, breast and belly to the eye were white, the camera has picked up reflected light from the bush






One of as many as 60 juvenile Starlings in my garden this week



Possibly 550 Canada Geese at Montrose Basin just now, these in an adjacent field at Maryton Ditch



As the tide rose many of the geese moved up to the Slunks area and Miss Erskine's Bank



The Pink-footed Goose in the centre of the photo has been around all summer, probably carrying an injury from the shooting season last winter



There were 17 juvenile Goosanders at the upper Lurgies, with one of 30+ Common Gulls and a large number of Black-headed Gulls




There is a Wasp nest in the metal gate at the Lurgies car park, currently they are still friendly enough. This one was chewing the wood for nest building material



Buff-tailed Bumblebee in front garden, the buddleia flowers will be pollinated soon by the bees if the weather doesn't improve, few butterflies are passing through just now and mostly Large Whites



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