There's not many days when everything combines and makes for good photos, but Friday was one of those days. I had to drop off Olive in Carnoustie and had a couple of hours to wait. I took the easy option and walked along from Westhaven to Craigmill mouth, and on a rising tide I sat in cover and waited for things to happen.
The first two photos are from my garden this morning and both feature death..........
This unfortunate Mouse ate far too much seed in the feeder overnight and got stuck so tightly it perished. I found it impossible to get it out and binned the feeder!
My Sparrowhawk's new preferred plucking place, just outside the window I'm currently sitting at. It's now three times I've seen this and always first thing in the morning
Sanderlings at Craigmill, I was sitting in a bit of cover on the south bank of the burn
Sanderlings incoming after a brief flight along the beach
Photography is good when the light is like this, and even at a distance the sun lit up these small waders
This Goosander could see I was there but kept coming into the burn mouth to feed
Common Gull
Curlew, complete with mud on its beak
More Curlews, I think walkers had flushed them from the field behind the dunes
Grey Plover
Oystercatcher
Redshank
Many Redshanks
Redshanks flushed by Crows, and a cameo from a Starling above them
Turnstone photo taken in between the dog walkers passing through
Turnstones at Westhaven
I wonder if this is a Cuckoo Bee species, it also seems late. I've asked an expert
I didn't expect to find a Wasp this late and it isn't a Queen
Magpie in Carmoustie, they nested two gardens away from the garden I was in this year
Rock Pipit at Craigmill
These Song Thrushes wanted to come into the garden I was in, but Alfie the cute dog, who is apparently trained to chase birds, was there barking at them......
Starling stalking one of my garden feeders
A late Swallow at Westhaven car park on Friday