Blog Birds by Olive

   
Olive claims to have charmed the birds into coming to the hide just like she charmed me many years ago, hence the title to this post.

I'll take the credit for the birds at Arbroath Harbour and videos from West Links.

Ringed Plover, click here      Redshank, click here

Little Grebe in the Marina (inner dock) at Arbroath, one of two present and very tolerant of the noise going on with grinders and hammering

Same bird but not in the direct sunlight

Presumed male Dipper in the Brothock Burn near the new flats

Female Dipper and singing along with the male. I'll look out the background to this bird later. Ringed 9/3/2020, seen regularly by Ken Slater, last seen by me on 18/11/2022. Last info was it had bred three times, each time the chicks were predated by a Heron

Back at home briefly for a coffee and this young male Sparrowhawk was sitting on the boundary wall, and keeping my garden bird numbers low, not with kills but disturbance

And as I walked downstairs after photographing the Sparrowhawk I had these Greylags flying past low over the houses, a garden first

Back out a Montreathmont and this time with Olive, the first bird we saw was this Buzzard being chased by Crows

Treecreeper but this time directly in front of the hide, a pity the structure blocks most of the usable light!

Back on its usual tree, a bit further away and even less light

Blue Tit

Great Tit

Robin, one of two

Siskin threatening another bird out of shot

Siskin front and back of the feeder

I had to include the only Lesser Redpoll around. If anyone gets the ring number let me know