Frog Chorus - with 18 choristers

   
A housework day on Saturday, interrupted by frogs and yellowhammers in my garden and a lot of sport on TV. Not much housework done!

Frogs croaking in my pond, click here        Yellowhammer video, click here

Colourful finches, click here         Blackbird male, click here

Yellowhammer male

Common Frog

Female Blackbird, one of two in the garden with four males

A Robin crooning its neck and getting ready to chase off another Robin

East Haven - 'Stinchendehavene'

A few photos from the beach in front of the car park at East Haven when the high tide concentrated the waders on the strand line, and a narrow band of sand. Below them two from Carnoustie House Grounds where I sat at the bottom of a large beech, while Olive went off to replace her burned energy with sausages from Costa. It seems the Grey Squirrels have either been removed, or more likely have moved into gardens and their bird feeders. I suppose some people will deliberately feed them making their removal ever more difficult!

Stonechat at the car park in East Haven

Redshanks also East Haven, at high tide with little beach left

Sanderlings feeding on the strand line

More Sanderlings on the waters edge

Synchronised feeding

There was little a disturbance which allowed for flight shots, some near...

...and some far

Starlings also feeding on the strand line

Stock Dove in Carnoustie House Grounds

Jackdaw as above

Doldrums - "a state or period of stagnation"

   

Nothing much to say today that's not under the photos. Still just one Great Crested Grebe at the west end of Forfar Loch.

Siskins on a feeder, click here for video

Blue Tit on the platform at Forfar Loch, someone has installed feeders on both sides and the birds are coming in

Long-tailed Tit same place, could have been a good photo without the branch in the foreground

and a Robin

Just when the bird numbers built up at the feeders, two large free-running dogs walked right under them. This will continue throughout the nesting season and many nests will fail

A wee bit of aggro between the newly arrived Lesser Black-backed Gulls on the sailing club spit

Magpie, just a bit too high up the tree

The frogs have started spawning in Montreathmont, this one thought its camouflage was working

Male Siskin

Having a go at a Coal Tit just out of shot