Post 2000, still going
The plan was to replicate the species in the last post (1999) which showed some of the earliest photos posted on this blog, this time with photos from modern cameras. That's drifted a bit as I don't have new photos of some!
I've started with some videos most likely taken with a Nikon Coolpix P1000, some are decent quality and others of birds too far away for any of the early cameras I've had. That's not to say that I don't have some quality in the old ones, some will have been in good light and with close subjects.
The newer stills will be from a Nikon D500 with a 300mm prime and a few from a D7200 with a Tamron 150-600mm, now mostly retired.
Little Grebe at Keptie Pond July 2021 Wood Sandpiper at a misty Hatton Golden Plovers Arbroath 2020
Little Grebe at Keptie Pond July 2021 Wood Sandpiper at a misty Hatton Golden Plovers Arbroath 2020
Glaucous Gull Arbroath Harbour 2021 Sparrowhawk female least gory version Purple Sandpipers Arbroath
2000 posts, 2000 miles
Adder in Glenesk, replacing a Toad as I've no new photos
Azure Damselfly, more interesting than the Common Blue. The difference is the shape of the mark (a cup) on the top part of the abdomen, the Common looks like a mushroom to me
Barry Buddon Lighthouses as seen from Balmossie
Common Darter Dragonfly female on Barry Buddon, occasionally one strikes the pose
Common Frog in Glen Clova, this is how Olive and I got together, she says unlike the fairy story, she kissed me and I turned into a frog.....harsh!
Cormorant in front of the car park at East Haven
Four Banded Longhorn Beetle at Kinnaber Links
Fox cub at St Cyrus, was with two others in an identified den
Grass Veneer Moth, the wee white looking ones that flit about your lawn
Great Crested Grebe, Forfar Loch. This was when the water levels were better managed and nest didn't get flooded out so often
Green Woodpecker, alas no longer seen in Montreathmont, or are a few still there? We also lost the few in West Woods of Ethie after the heart of the area they used was felled
Grey Heron at Elliot Burn mouth. Herons are a success story in my lifetime, when I was a young angler it was a big thing to see a Heron, it was normal for them to be shot to improve fish stocks. If it doesn't suit humans, kill it....
Grey Wagtail in the gloomy channel where the Brothock Burn runs into the sea. Although they don't trust us, Grey Wags are prepared to live beside us
Guillemot on the cliffs near Auchmithie
Herring Gull, Arbroath Harbour
House Sparrows in my garden, currently around 40-50 birds are seen at the same time, when the feeders are filled up
Lapwing at Kinnordy Loch
A leucistic Tree Sparrow in my garden, it stayed around for a long period in spring in two consecutive years
Marsh Harrier male at Kinnordy Loch, Kirriemuir. Photos at distance and with the Tamron I'd think
Orange Tip Butterfly on Carnoustie Golf Links, the Open and now the Wind Farm cabling has affected numbers, and the cold snap this spring
Pink-footed Goose at the Lurgies, looks like one of that years juveniles
Razorbill at Arbroath Cliffs
Red-throated Diver at St Cyrus
Reed Bunting male, seen on the track to Scurdie Ness
Ringlet Butterfly on Barry Buddon Camp
Shag at Arbroath Cliffs
Shelduck male at Murton NR
Six Spot Burnet Moth, Lunan Bay
Starling in the garden, around 150 there on 10/9/2021
Tulip in Olive's garden
Whooper Swan in front of the Gullery Hide at Kinnordy
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