Due to the weather I didn't even bother taking my DSLR out, but I'm pleased with these photos, mostly from distance and in poor conditions. The full size versions are better but these will do to tell the story of a windswept Friday. Videos below, click the links to view. Note they didn't play on my mobile until I deleted my Flickr App!!
Part of a flock of 114 Whooper Swans at Eassie Crossroads. This one is five separate photos stitched together using Microsft I.C.E. You can see the car window bottom left, it was too cold and windy to get out
Just the one Barnacle Goose, but I couldn't see the White-fronted Goose in bad conditions, and with many geese keeping their heads down in the strong wind
I'm not yet sure if this mostly leucistic Herring Gull at Keptie Pond is the same one I've seen in and around Arbroath for a few years
It's been photographed at the Timmergreens shops in the past, and it flew off in that direction. It may go there at school lunchtimes!!
It was just too late in the day for Little Grebe photos
If they come close it's difficult to resist the shutter button
The reason I've photographed this Racing Pigeon (gone wild), is I've seen it occasionally in my garden 2km away
Not much on Forfar Loch on Friday, but someone must be feeding this tame Robin at the viewing platform. At one point I could have patted it on the head!
I must have seen this Eagle Owl at Murton before but don't have any photos. I wonder if it's a rescue bird, and hopefully not bred to be kept in a small enclosure. It's adjacent neighbours, some hens, don't seem bothered by it's presence
Eating something on the ground
I think this is the highest water level I've seen on the Murton ponds, the water was backing up the feeder burn at the footbridge