Bored by the lockdown and weather, with new editing software and better understanding of how to use it, I've tried to sort damage done in the past to photos in my "Ducks Geese Swans Divers" folder. I think much of it was due to the settings of my graphics card and monitor. Google doesn't help as all of the photos here are brighter than the originals and I can't see how to stop it. I even darkened the female Eider quite heavily and Google made it the same as the one I was replacing! (Note, Lightbox turned off as a trial)
I started out with the intention of posting the odd photos but along the way I found many old friends so put them up here. They are simply in alphabetical order and if I can I'll add more details later if my memory works.
American Wigeon, Birnie Loch, Fife
Bar-headed Goose, not flying over the Himalayas as it should be, but over Kinnordy Castle!
Barnacle Goose, the Lurgies, Montrose Basin
Black-necked Grebe, Elie Harbour
Bewicks Swan with a Mute Swan at Newburgh, Fife
I don't know if anyone recognised these as Dark-bellied Brent Geese at Victoria Park, Arbroath. The weather was so bad most just watched from their cars
Coot juvenile at Keptie Pond
Dave the Diver (Red-throated) at City Quay, Dundee
Eider duck
Surely a farmyard goose at Victoria Park, Arbroath. Perhaps released by someone?
Goldeneye drake, Murton NR
Goosander pair below the weir in Cragmill Den, I'd had to hide in the trees hence the trunk to the left
Great Crested Grebe, Forfar Loch
Great Northern Diver on the Island Pond, Monikie CP
Green-winged Teal at Murton NR, Forfar
Harlequin drake on the River Don, Seaton Park, Aberdeen
Looks to be a Canadian/Greylag hybrid at Murton NR
King Eider drake with an Eider for comparison, Ythan Estuary
Eider duck at the Ythan Estuary with a pigment issue
Do you recognise this backside
Long-tailed Duck (drake), Montrose Basin
In my garden pond
A somewhat dodgy/mixed Mallard at Monikie
Mandarin drake, surely designed by a committee of artists
Have a guess baldy
How we treat wildlife in Arbroath. I also have a photo of the owners laughing as the dog chased the male Swan for about 5 minutes
For those who want cuteness, Carnoustie Golf Links
Mute Swan dislodging mud from its feet on landing at Montrose Basin after flying in from a nearby field
Pale-bellied Brent Goose, Victoria Park Arbroath
Pink-footed Geese, Montrose Basin
The hybrid Pintail/Mallard at Keptie Pond
Pochard drake at Monikie CP
Red-breasted Merganser on the North Esk
Red-necked Grebe, Lintrathen
Red-throated Diver, not quite in Angus and when I was younger
Ring-necked drake , Pitlochry
Ruddy Duck near Brechin
Scaup female at Keptie Pond
Hybrid aythya, any ideas?
Shoveler at Kinnordy
Slavonian Grebe, Broughty Ferry Harbour
Smew drake, Monikie CP
Smew
Tufted drake (punk) Keptie Pond
Velvet Scoter female, North Esk Estuary
Velvet Scoter drakes flying past Scurdie Ness
Whooper Swan at Canoustie Golf Links