Raindrops keep falling on my head

   
Some evidence of the heavy rainfall showing in the first photos here and wader photos from East Haven beach, where I sat too long on damp grass before the Sanderlings and Dunlin approached near at high tide 

Waders at East Haven      2 Crossbills, Backwater Dam (dodgy)      Big yellow bird scarer!      Raindrops keep falling

Backwater Dam in heavy rain on Tuesday November 22nd. The sun was shining from behind me and Olive was hiding in the car!

We'd gone to look for the Great Grey Shrike near its usual hunting site and found a new track being built into the woods, no doubt for more clear felling. We didn't look up the hill due to incoming rain so it's possible the Shrike has returned and could have been thereabouts

The watershed around the dam is completely saturated and the spillway was discharging a lot of water

This is Buddy's Loch at Murton NR and at the highest level I've seen for a very long time. The water was a "drinking chocolate" colour and a only a few stray birds were around. Hopefully once the winter wildfowl notice the loch they'll return, one issue might be that the continuous low levels over this year have restricted the Perch and Stickleback numbers which the sawbills, and Cormorants hunt

This is the Wetlands at Murton, also full to the brim, only 2 Teal, 3 Mute Swans and 5 Mallard were present on the dirty water which will settle given time

Purple Sandpiper at East Haven, and in sunlight so I had my DSLR out! (that's not a euphisism)

Two Dunlin and a Sanderling

If there was to be a "cute" wader then Sanderlings would be high up the list

I spent ages trying to get this or a better photo but as the sun was shining from the seaward side there were just a few opportunities when the Black-headed Gulls weren't shaded

Pied Wagtail, I recall recording around 13 of them

Linnets near Auchmithie flying over and feeding in one of the Corn Bunting winter seed strips, just 90 in one flock. I picked up 5 seed pods which I think were Fodder Radish and although they looked ready to eat, I found in 4 of them the seed had rotted

Another sudden and heavy shower, this is two photos stitched together using Microsoft's free tool, Image Composite Editor, it's easy to use. There was a fainter second rainbow when the rain was heaviest, it's just visible top left

Wind Turbines which can be seen with the naked eye from Auchmithie, I counted 41