Friday 25 October 2024

Great and Little Egrets, and a plucky Sparrowhawk

   
On the outgoing tide at Tayock, the Pink-footed Geese got ever further away as more of the mud was exposed. A young female Sparrowhawk flew in and was chased west by two Crows, it then returned but this time chasing a single Crow!

The Great Egret was originally near the Old Harbour at the Lurgies, but I couldn't find a way to get closer without being seen, eventually it flew upstream without flushing.
Click the links below for short videos.

Great Egret on Miss Erskine's Bank (from Lurgies path)      Pink-footed Geese at Tayock


Great Egret at the Lurgies, photo taken through some bushes from the car park!






On the far bank of the South Esk, Miss Erskine's Bank, with a Greenshank cameo



Little Egret flying into the small pond formed where the floods broke out of the field, destroying the path









Female Sparrowhawk chasing a Crow! Probably further apart than they look



A drake Teal moulting into its winter plumage, seen behind the garage at Rossie Spit



Some of 300+ Golden Plovers on the low tide mark behind Gayfield Park, home of the "Mighty Red Lichties"



Cropped from the one above


Just too far away on a late dull afternoon


Curlew




Linnets at Whiting Ness, Arbroath Cliffs

No comments:

Post a Comment

Search Blog

Blog archive