A Gannet feast on Friday as 300 or more were passing north at Arbroath Cliffs every hour. A few came in close enough for photos, along with Kittiwakes, Fulmars, Guillemots, Herring Gulls and a shiny new moulted female Kestrel.
Gannets flying north at Arbroath Cliffs, tight zoom, click here for video
Gannet second year plumage, all of the Gannets photographed from the clifftop at Arbroath
Gannets, adults, first year and second year birds, moults are variable even asymmetrical
Guillemot and this years juvenile, just off the rocks at Scurdie Ness
Herring Gull adult with this years brood, forever demanding more food
Female Kestrel
Kittiwakes, adults juveniles and some of last years immatures at Whiting Ness, Arbroath
Looks like a Garden Snail, Arbroath Cliffs
Spoonbill in the middle sleeping, Montrose Basin
Banded Snail species, perhaps "yellow-lipped"
The last Common Carder this year, honest
Juvenile Common Tern at Scurdie Ness, perhaps from the nesting colony in Montrose
Cormorant, looks to have something stuck in its bill, it was permanently open as it flew past
Fulmar, during a Gannet interlude
Tachinid Fly, Eriothrix rufomaculata
Large White Butterfly, they replaced the Green-veined Whites this weekend
Chocolate Mining Bee female
Chocolate Mining Bee female
No comments:
Post a Comment