Thursday 17 December 2020

Purple Sandpipers - Arbroath Harbour


Some photos from around Arbroath. 

I started on Thursday at Tayock and there was nothing to see except the Kestrel at the bottom of this post, it wouldn't let me get on the sunlight side of it.
Back in Arbroath I looked again for a white winged gull at Victoria Park, but just saw some Herring Gulls, Crows and Turnstones.
Moving on to the harbour I found at least 35 Purple Sandpipers on the harbour wall at the Back o' the heeds (the foghorn area) and a future visit with some planning might get better photos.
The photos are a kinda mixed up below so I've detailed some of them.



I probably should have taken this at an angle, avoiding the white post at the end of the sea wall



A tricky photo, taken by hanging over the wall







Obviously I wasn't hanging over the wall enough!




No light left for this Eider in the harbour




The Victoria Park Crows are becoming ever less wary, and in this one too close








First of a sequence as this Herring Gull plucked something from the water












The Oystercatchers just can't get peace to feed and are constantly flushed by humans with canines




Still lots of Rock Pipits about, and as it gets colder they'll become easier to photograph




The only view I could get and into the light at Tayock



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