I couldn't buy a Whooper Swan sighting until the last two days, it seems they've arrived in larger numbers and most looked to be resting after the flight to Angus.
Whooper Swans with five cygnets, click here for video
Whooper Swans with five cygnets, click here for video
A Curlew washing worms as it fed at Tayock, click here
Whooper Swans in a field just north of Inverkeilor, on a flooded section after the Lunan burst its banks. No cygnets with this three. Photo from the A92 roadside
In the same flood, this family have five cygnets. Note there's nowhere to park unless you walk from the Lunan Bridge layby
Another childless pair on Miss Erskines Bank, Montrose Basin. Seen alongside a pair of Mutes that have five cygnets
The view from the Tayock Hide just before I had to leave after someone walked around to the front of the hide, it's a hide for heavens sake, use it