An early visit to Murton before doing my rota Webs count at the weekend, the site is surveyed once a month for the BTO by a number of Angus and Dundee Bird Club volunteers. If you are interested and a current member and would like to volunteer, ask Jonathon he's the Webs Co-ordinator for Angus.
I've overdone the Little Ringed Plovers a bit, but I don't see them often. The Garganey drake was a surprise, I suppose it's a new bird and not a straggler from before, a number are being recorded just now as they move north.
Also seen but not photographed, Shoveler pair, Blackcaps, Chiffchaffs, Teal and what might have been a Garden Warbler heard distantly in the wind. Some Lapwings already have mobile chicks and the parents were battling to keep the corvids away.
A pair of Little Ringed Plovers showed real pluck and chased off an Oystercatcher which was annoying them, a distant video here is best viewed on a PC and shows their determination, "Get off my land" Sounds familiar to me even though we have an Access Code!
All media in this post from my Nikon Coolpix P1000.
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Little Ringed Plover, editors choice Little Ringed Plover, click here for video Little Ringed Plover close zoom
Little Ringed Plover
Sedge Warbler
Shelduck drake
Black-headed Gulls are nesting on the rocks in the petting farm pool which has dried up, hard to think that this will be successful
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