This post is highlighting one site, the Wigeon Hide in the northwest corner of Montrose Basin. I sat in the hide at high tide with both cameras trying to record as many of the bird species as I could, obviously some were too distant or were in mixed flocks, but I'm happy with what I managed.
It's sad that since the loss of the Twite feeding/ringing station that their numbers have fallen, only 2 seen whereas in the past it could have been 100. There were likely to be more about, but it's a big area and they're not so easy to see on windy days when they won't roost in the tall trees, and the ploughed fields of the past are now sown with winter cereals.
The Pintail numbers of around 75 are good, Curlews of 200+ are lower but more would be roosting or feeding elsewhere, and an unusual find of a Rock Pipit was a welcome stranger inland.
Click on the links below for UHD videos hosted on my Flickr.
Grey Plover
Redshank
Curlew
Dunlin
Oystercatchers
Fieldfare
Rock Pipit
Yellowhammer
Whooper Swans
Little Egret
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