A visit to St Cyrus on Tuesday was made dififficult by the weather with strong winds and unpredictable showers. The only birds seen were, a Buzzard, Peregrine, Kestrel, Stonechats and gulls.
I moved on to below the railway bridge and got views of distant Long-tailed Ducks (2), Red-throated Divers (2), a Great Crested Grebe and vast numbers of Wigeon and Shelducks in the distant mist and rain.
When I arrived at the Lurgies the tide was at its peak almost submerging Miss Erskine's Bank. There were three Canada Geese, 2 Pink-footed Geese, 2 Greylags and 6 Little Grebes. Up the path around 90 Redwings were flushed by a walker and around 16 Goldeneye and a few Teal also left "stage right"
Common or garden Canada Geese I'm afraid
Same Geese, different camera and light
This Pink-footed Geese was sheltering in the lee of the Lurgies path opposite the Slunks, no obvious injuries but it wasn't fleeing and looked a bit thin
A few Common Gulls were working along the beach at St Cyrus but the swell and rough seas meant I couldn't get a view of anything out at sea
Two Stonechats were at the start of the path leading to the old cemetery and two more further along
The whole length of the beach at St Cyrus had a layer of this foam on the high water mark, deeper at the north end where it was being compressed into the cliffs
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