Sparrowhawk and "windswept at East Haven"

 
The first photos and video I've managed of a young male Sparrowhawk which has been around for a few weeks. There's no evidence that any of my Tree Sparrows have been taken, I still have 10 visiting and no feather piles anywhere in the garden.

The photos below the Sparrowhawk are all from East Haven walking north to Hatton.

Garden Sparrowhawk, click here for video      Bar-tailed Godwit, East Haven      Sanderlings playing "chicken" at Lunan Bay      Goosander drakes preening on the ice at Keptie Pond

The 1st winter Sparrowhawk which is keeping the birds away from my garden just now

A little later when the sun had moved around and lit its perch up

Stonechat at East Haven using the down-force of the wind to stop being blown of the post

Sanderlings being sand-blasted as they forage

Rock Pipit, the only one seen on the windswept beach, it was foraging where one of the ditches flows through a culvert under the railway line

Redshanks at the small pool by the railway line to the north of East Haven

This Robin has crouched to stop being blown off the wire

One of around 20 Sanderlings mixed with Turnstones

There were small groups of Cormorants flying south from the rocks, most likely to the shelter in the Tay