Green-winged Teal, Ravens, Great Egret and Corn Buntings

A good day on Tuesday which started with a Great Egret, Pintails and Knot, all from the road west of the SWT Centre.

Next at St Cyrus, both Ravens were active and calling, a Kestrel was sitting in a tree, and Fulmars flying and calling from the cliffs.

Then the star, a Green-winged Teal with many Eurasian Teal at the Lurgies car park, albeit in dull conditions in a dark corner.

The videos at these links below span over a few days, and include one which shows 189 Corn Buntings near Auchmithie, at a longstanding winter feed crop field. Certainly my highest count, and possibly a site/area record.

Pintails, seen from the roadside (A92) just west of SWT Montrose Basin         Knot, Pintails and Black-tailed Godwits, as previous video      

Great Egret, filmed from same location         Pochard drake at Rescobie, 3000mm and 1.4 digital zoom         

Corn Buntings, some of 189 on the wires at Boghead

Green-winged Teal, and Eurasian Teal in the background, Lurgies, Montrose Basin

With Eurasian Teal

Raven at St Cyrus

It looks to be thin, or hungry?

Kestrel

Buzzard

Fulmar

Herring Gull in Arbroath Harbour

Redshank

Bank Vole in Montreathmont Forest