A trip to Monikie was aborted when I found two dinghies and a rescue boat sailing around on the Island Pond at Monikie, there were no birds. A quick look on the North Pond but nothing rare and the ducks were on edge, and no sign of the Little Egret.
It was high tide when I arrived at East Haven and not much of the beach was above water. Fortunately the tide didn't cover the whole beach or I would have been forced to wade on my way back. There was a good mixture of waders on the narrow strip of sand, and a count of six Purple Sandpipers is probably my highest there.
Four species of waders, click here for video Redshank with a limp, click here
Dunlin, East Haven
Sanderling in same pose as the Dunlin above
Purple Sandpiper
Ringed Plover
Turnstone
Redshank with injured foot
Bar-tailed Godwit and Oystercatcher
Grey Plovers centre with Bar-tailed Godwits left and right, and Dunlin front
Dunlin
Rock Pipit with a small shellfish, in the style of a Waxwing
I believe this is the Minke Whale from West Links beach in Arbroath, it's been lying at the mouth of the Craigmill Burn for weeks
Looking north to East Haven just as the rain started
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