Climate Change affecting Angus Bird-watching Sites

A trip to Backwater Dam, Lintrathen and Kinnordy was an anti-climax, the first two which are reservoirs had very low water levels, the lowest I've seen. I've retrospectively added two phone photos of the mud and vegetation at the west end of Backwater Dam.

Backwater had 3 Buzzards, some Meadow Pipits, 16 Canada Geese, 2 Herons, Mallards, Wigeon and a single Cormorant.

 

Lintrathen was just as disappointing, even the elevated hide was inaccessible and locked because of a Wasps nest, the only highlight being 2 Black-tailed Godwits and 8 Snipe. A bonus was a single Nuthatch near the parking area which made its way along the roadside trees.

Kinnordy was very quiet, and many of the open spaces filled with reeds obscuring any birds that might have been there.

I then moved to Lunan Bay and got interested/obsessed in the Sanderlings near the water's edge on the south of the river. The day before I'd seen two Arctic Skuas chasing Terns when I didn't have a camera, this time it was the other way around.

Video links below

One Sanderling      Two Sanderlings      Common Scoters      Buzzard at Kinnordy     Harvestman

Red Kite, near the junction at the A90 and Padanaram

Sanderling at Lunan Bay, as are the following photos

Arctic Tern

Common Tern

Oystercatcher at Tayock, Montrose Basin

Knot

Common Drone Fly and Common Banded Hoverfly

Same Drone Fly

Common Banded Hoverfly