I did manage a few photos during the last few days when Storm Babet was making life miserable for everyone, especially in Brechin but not forgetting other householders on the floodplains of the South and North Esks.
Highlights were seeing 2 Grey Phalaropes, 4 Little Auks, 1 Arctic Skua and many other birds which were unidentified due to the weather, but particularly the rain which isn't good if you wear specs as I do. Worse was the rain got to the glue holding my camera eyepiece on and it's lost forever, and I can't find a replacement anywhere except for a dodgy looking site in China! (email sent to Nikon Support).
On the second or third day, I forget the days, the only birds around in a brief visit were Kittiwakes and Shags which didn't want to move from roosts around the harbour in Arbroath.
Some of the videos I took, often in the rain, below, click to view.
Shags on breakwater Drookit Crow Grey Plovers East Haven
Shag, sheltering on the Lifeboat slipway. a surprisingly small bird when seen at close range, and the difference to Cormorants is obvious in the video above
A day earlier and 4 Shags were sitting on the harbour breakwater due to the wind and sea conditions, usually they'd be on the west breakwater which was getting a battering
This apparently young Crow was only 4 feet from me, I think hoping to be fed. It was clinging to the wall with its sharp toes inserted in small holes in the surface
This used to be a lamp-post at the black shed, the light and the electrics were lying on the ground nearby having been blown out of its fitting
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