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The monthly survey was a bit early this month as Saturday didn't have a decent weather forecast and the tide on Sunday was too late.
A Common Scoter female, and for a change quite close to the beach, perhaps because of the lack of people and that it was nearly dark when seen
A Blue Peter "one I made earlier photo" of another Common Scoter which was about 5km inland on the South Esk. Photo taken from around 12 metres of a fresh bird in sunlight on 18th October 2022
The central bird is Mediterranean Gull yellow AL.ZZ which has been seen around East Haven and Arbroath since 2019 when it had a different ring, it was given a replacement when it was caught again in Germany where it was born, and probably returned during the breeding season
I can't recall a winter record of Bar-tailed Godwits being more than five, today there were nine together
The nine landed at Craigmill and spread out along the water's edge
Song Thrushes continue to decline, partly due to warmer, drier spring and summer conditions with less food available, and probably made worse by changes in modern gardens where suitable habitat has been replaced with patios, summerhouses, furniture and artificial grass, not to mention a plethora of needless lights
A young Cormorant that had managed to get through the recent storms, sadly others and many Shags didn't
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