After a fruitless search for a Bittern at Monikie CP, I returned to Arbroath as the forecast rain started, and I had some time to look at the wader roost at Inchcape, check the harbour to confirm the Long-tailed Ducks were still there, and count the Purple Sandpipers.
On Wednesday afternoon I found the Pochard drake at Rescobie which surely is the same one I saw before Christmas, and on a short visit to Montreathmont I found but didn't photograph at least 4 Crossbills, and some of the usual characters at the hide.
Rainy day Long-tailed Ducks in Arbroath Harbour, click here Distant Pochard video (3000mm)
Rainy day Long-tailed Ducks in Arbroath Harbour, click here Distant Pochard video (3000mm)
One of around 30+ Purple Sandpipers trying to keep out of the wind at Arbroath Harbour
Huddled in some shelter
Two of a flock of Knot at Inchcape Park, Arbroath, probably more than 40 others being moved up the rocky beach as the tide rose
Knot, rearranging their positions and getting ever closer to me, but I couldn't tolerate the the cold wind blowing of the sea and I retreated to some shelter at the Harbour
About a dozen Dunlin in the mixed flock of waders on the beach, including Ringed Plover, Purple Sandpipers, Turnstones and Oystercatchers, and the Knot and Dunlin above
From Montreathmont Forest on Wednesday. One of a small group of Long-tailed Tits
Great Tit
Coal Tit
Blue Tit
I didn't get a more natural photo of this male Siskin
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