Hands up from your editor. Posts in late March and early April appeared to lose their photos, or some photos. I now know that I deleted them in my Google Drive to make space for the very large videos created with my P1000, I record in 4K UHD 3840 by 2160.
I've just deleted the errors in the assumption that nobody reads old posts and that there was nothing rare or unusual in them.
Yesterday's birds from Arbroath, a look at gull differences, there's quite a number at the harbour when they see the lobster boots come in.
Lesser Black-backed Gulls, Danger Point Arbroath, click here for video
Great Black-backed Gulls, Arbroath Harbour, click here
Pied Wagtail preening, Brothock Burn, click here for video
Woodpigeon eating leaves high in a tree on the railway embankment, Arbroath
I can't figure this photo, it's a Great Black-backed Gull in front of a Herring Gull and yet they don't appear significantly different in size/length. I suppose the different pose and perhaps a male Herring and female Great Black-backed could be the answer. Photo from the Brothock mouth at Danger Point
Lesser Black-backed Gull in the same place
Great Black-backed photographed across the harbour from the Oil Pier
Immature Great Black-backed Gulls on the West Breakwater, from the Fog Horn area at "the back o' the heeds"
Lesser Black-backed at Keptie Pond
Grey Wagtail at the old "blue toilets" building
Pied Wagtail in the same spot
I think this is a Mallard/Tufted hybrid which has managed a brood at Keptie. She has around six ducklings and a young Mallard drake in company with her. I've seen a number of these most years on the pond and they seem slightly better at keeping the ducklings alive! She's the same size as an adult Mallard.
