Staying local meant a walk around the harbour in Arbroath at high tide on Monday. We strayed out to the West Links where the leucistic Herring Gull was feeding with about another 150 gulls, mostly Black-headed Gulls. Some other birds from the harbour and its surrounds were also photographed.
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Leucistc Herring Gull
Faded primaries which can look darker in the shaded light
Rock Pipit at Gayfield
Redshanks
A stray Purple Sandpiper on the beach at Inchcape, its mates were on the west breakwater
Oystercatcher
Eider drake, one of two hanging around the harbour for a week or more