I picked the wrong weather to get a yearly photo of a pair of well known Peregrines, it was just too windy. The photos I did get were taken lying down, braced against a tree and hiding in gorse which did scare at least one walker on the path!
Other photos from a brief visit to Montrose Basin and a very cold session at Monikie made up my day.
A wobbly video of a female Peregrine eating a Feral Pigeon, it was windy, click here
A wobbly video of a female Peregrine eating a Feral Pigeon, it was windy, click here
First view of my Hedgehog, probably back in hiding in this weather, click here
A series of Peregrine photos taken at the limits of the Nikon P1000's range, not at full zoom but in the wind which was buffeting me about
It's a female eating a Feral Pigeon which the male had brought her
Not much of the Pigeon left in this photo
A very full crop in this one when it was sitting at the clifftop
An unexpected bonus in this photo, I was panning along the cliff on one of the Peregrines and luckily got both birds in this photo
Looks like the male
I got just one photo of this Kestrel which was hunting very near the car park before it turned into the wind and disappeared
You were thinking, "what a nice day" when you saw the photos above. It was snowing at the Old Harbour on Montrose Basin
Cormorant which had been sheltering in the channel at the Old Harbour
There were around 220 Redshanks at Miss Erskine's Bank and the Lurgies, soon to move inland to breed
Flushed by Buzzard
There were Sand Martins feeding in every bit of shelter they could find at Monikie CP. This was one of very few I managed to photograph, and its wing tip is just breaking the surface of the water
In the wind they were just too fast and erratic to capture in flight
Black-headed Gull, I didn't see any Little Gulls in very cold and windy conditions, and the Black-headed numbers looked to have diminished
A very mobile Chiffchaff working along the path on the North Pond but always high in the trees despite the wind
Grey Wagtail, one of a pair working up one of the ditches
Reed Bunting male