Friday, 1 September 2023

Coast, Dunes, Forest and garden - Birds and Insects

   
A long post with many photos from my walk along to the estuary of the North Esk at Kinnaber Links. Basically I've imported birds other than terns and gannets which were covered in the previous posts, followed by insects and butterflies. Then some photos from Tayock at Montrose Basin, a quick look at Rossie Spit, and then insects and butterflies in my garden.
Photos will be in alphabetical order for each day I was out, with an odd photo fitted in from elsewhere, identities for insects aren't guaranteed, and from ObsIdentify and Paul Brock's book. 
I'd give a bit more info but I'm being called to mow the lawn(s).


Spotted Redshank video, click here      Med Gull at West Links      Common Terns at Kinnaber




Canada Geese at Kinnaber, on the estuary pool at high tide





Dunlin





Lapwings





Mediterranean Gull adult with yellow ring AL:ZZ, a yearly visitor to West Links




Sanderling





Shelducks





Yellowhammer into the sun




Meadow Brown





Meadow Brown





Peacock Butterfly





Red Admiral, lots of them in sheltered sunny clearings





Silver Y Moth, not easy to see






 




Silver Y Moth





Small Heath Butterfly





Speckled Wood Butterfly





Common Banded Hoverfly Syrphus ribesii, in my garden




Common Wasp on my pond





European Crane Fly





Greenshank at Tayock Hide, Montrose Basin





This was a test photo of a Herring Gull, trying to find the correct settings in the strong sunlight





House Sparrow, seen from Olive's "coffee patio"





Long Hoverfly Sphaerophoria scripta





On a neighbours roof, there were four and I hadn't seen any for a few weeks





Orange-legged Furrow Bee





Silver Y Moth





Small Tortoiseshell Butterfly





Small White Butterfly female Tayock, seen mating with the one below











Tachinid Fly Eriothrix rufomaculata in my garden





Black-tailed Godwit, Redshank, Dunlin, Knot and Lapwing, a distant tripod photo



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