LATE NEWS from the RSPB. Buzzards killed in crow trap...click here for sickening video
At last, a first Iceland Gull of this year, and at the usual place the gull roost near the old sewage pipe at the north end of Victoria Park. Found by Graham and then Dan, it was mostly sleeping at low tide and photographed at 125 times zoom.
I'd been at Keptie Pond earlier in the day, then West Links but had left Victoria Park to later, and instead went to look at wild bird cover strips on Corn Bunting survey farms when I got a text about the gull. The strip I was on at the time had 12 Linnets and little seed left other than some rape which had still to grow and reach the seed stage.
Iceland Gull wing pattern, click here Iceland Gull zoom Iceland Gull preening
Game birds being dumped again, perhaps the market is falling due to the toxic lead found in supermarket birds, click here for video
Game birds being dumped again, perhaps the market is falling due to the toxic lead found in supermarket birds, click here for video
1st winter Iceland Gull at Victoria Park, Arbroath
Possible to view with binoculars and made easier if it stands up, not so easy if it's sleeping and head on
Goosander drake at Keptie Pond
Goosander female
Coot
Yes it was gathering nest building material
More investigation into this duck at Keptie as some think it could be part Red-crested Pochard, we think it's part of a hybrid collection released at the pond
Mallard drake
Mallard duck
Moorhen
Tufted drake
I tried hard to get a readable photo of the metal ring but another Black-headed Gull kept pushing it off the perch. The sun wasn't helping much either
Carrion Crow at West Links
Pied Wagtail, West Links
Rock Pipit, a pair were feeding on the grass behind Chalmers Cinema
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