Some photos from Danger Point where the Brothock Burn in Arbroath reaches the sea. I'd been looking for a Mediterranean Gull but the tide was too low, so I had a short walk around the harbour area. I didn't expect to find another Sparrowhawk there but many House Sparrows in the area, and they hang about in the lobster creels, probably for safety.
I've included more insects from my garden, no guarantees, although I used ObsIdentify, a book and the web.
Male Sparrowhawk that flew down the Brothock Burn at E&O Fish, then banked across the road into a garden at number 1 Shore
Great black-backed Gull 2nd calendar year at Danger Point, where the gulls bathe in the pool where the Brothock Burn spills into the rocks
Curlew
Female Eider
Lesser black-backed Gull
One of three Mallard ducklings in the Brothock, my last sighting there were six assuming the same brood
Herring Gull making its presence known as I stood about 3 metres away
Oystercatcher calling loudly
The Brothock is currently low with no sign of Dippers, just this Pied Wagtail and many House Sparrows
Tan Dance Fly Empis livida
Turnip Sawfly Athalia rosae
Red Soldier Beetle
Tiger Cranefly Nephrotoma quadrifaria
Common Drone Fly Eristalis tenax
Eurasian Drone Fly Eristalis arbustorum
Marmalade Fly
Broad-banded Aphideater or in UK Meadow Field Syrph Eupeodes latifasciatus
Buff-tailed Bumblebee
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