Redwing, Brambling and maybe a Siberian Chiffchaff?

   
There's a lot in this post covering a few days and different sites, near and far. A trip to Inchgarth Reservoir in Aberdeen to see a Yellow-legged Gull proved fruitless. Many gulls flew off the water as I walked around and I flushed a female Sparrowhawk which alarm called as it left. They were maybe ready to move anyway as they didn't return.

My favourite media below has to be the Rock Pipit video, they're difficult birds to photograph, often seen in average light and always on the move, not this one.

I followed a Grey Wagtail up the Brothock Burn from the sea until I lost it upstream of the bus station, the flood works didn't help, and I haven't seen any Dippers in the lower Brothock for a long time.

Rock Pipit preening      Long-tailed Ducks      Red-throated Diver 

Common Scoters      Gull species      Rock Pipit bathing

Brothock Burn flood prevention works at the rear of community centre, the reason for the road diversion and closure

Eider drake in Arbroath Harbour

Great Black-backed Gull

Grey Wagtail in the Brothock just as the rain started, it's not as dark and colourful as this photo suggests 

Guillemot in the harbour mouth

Blackbird at Mains of Usan

Blackcap female, Mains of Usan

Brambling

I'd venture that this may be a Siberian Chiffchaff

Redwing

Tree Sparrow

Wren

Fieldfare, Mains of Usan, too early on a dull morning

Grey Heron, it's usually a raptor I see sitting on the old gate post, often a Peregrine

Corn Bunting late afternoon at Boghead

Just the three Long-tailed Ducks in this distant photo, around 40 were present in front of the car park at Lunan Bay. The viewing platform has been removed, 25/10/2022

The missing platform!

Gull species, left to right Black-headed, Herring and Common. None of these were my target, a Yellow-legged Gull

This Common Gull is a Stavanger bird. Ringed 1/7/2018, Sandnes , Rogaland. (female, presumably adult when ringed)

The Common Gull with the richest yellow legs

The only large Herring Gull type that "might" have been the Yellow-legged Gull which was awol. This one is likely the northern variant Herring Gull Larus argentatus

Red-throated Diver near the railway bridge at Montrose Basin