Photos and videos from a day at Lunan Bay (briefly) and Maryton Ditch and the Lurgies at Montrose Basin. I was looking for inshore Scoters at Lunan, but although they were in front of the platform, so were many dog walkers and two surfers were in the water.
Almost immediately at Maryton I found the Great Egret but it was later at the Lurgies where I took some decent video of a bird pretty far out on the mud. A Little Egret near the Old Harbour was more accommodating until it was flushed by a dog walker.
Nevertheless, I did see these using my scope, Great Egret, Little Egret, 9 Pintails, 4 Golden Plover, 1000's on Pink-footed Geese, Canada Geese, Greylag Geese, 2000+ Wigeon, Goldeneye, Goosanders, Red-Breasted Mergansers, Oystercatchers, Black-tailed Godwits, Cormorants, Redshanks, Dunlin, many Mute Swans, Herring Gulls, Black-headed Gulls and Common Gulls.
And a few miscellaneous photos below, and some survivors of 60 videos I took over the day of varying quality.
Great Egret feeding in a channel Great and Little Egrets Great Egret in flight Little Egret feeding in the river Huge Pink-footed Geese flock Pink-footed Geese landing Redshanks fighting Pintails distant
Greenshank Velvet Scoters (a video too far) Greenfinch eating rose hips
Just a few of the 46,000 Pink-footed Geese on Montrose Basin on 29/9/2021
They were a bit high up when they came over me but you can see the features quite well in this photo
There are three geese species in this photo, Greylags in the foreground, Canada's in the centre and two Pink-footed sleeping at the rear, you can see their heads, confirmed when they woke up briefly
Cormorant that had just had an epic struggle with a flounder that was just too big for it
Little Egret filmed from behind the notice boards at the Lurgies gate, as soon as people walked past me it flew away. There were at least four separate Little Egrets and this one chased another away twice
The Basin as seen form the Old Harbour
No zoom in this one
This photo and the one below are composites made up of as many as 9 photos, spliced together using Microsoft's free tool Image Composite Editor. It's been discontinued but is still available here on softonic and a few other sites, Microsoft ICE
Just some of the Pink-footed Geese which had just landed between the Lurgies and the SWT Centre. The SWT events around the geese have started, you'll need to book
This juvenile Goldfinch seems to have lost it's family and is hanging about the garden on it's own
Olive's Robin which is still a bit canny, and so it should as I found a pile of House Sparrow feathers and it's beak parts on my bins. The Sparrowhawk has never landed on the bins while I'm sat at the window but I've got a short lens on an old camera ready for it
I'm still getting high numbers of Starlings in my garden, highest count this week was 56
Painted Lady, found resting out of the wind and sunning in the town centre of Arbroath
Work going on at the Steeple in Arbroath, I hope they're finished in time for the Peregrines who sometimes use it in winter
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