Wednesday 21 February 2018

The Blog is Back!

Apologies for being ill and neglecting this blog.

Today was my first day out for at least a fortnight and I was lucky enough to get some good Little Egret photos and views of the ever elusive Water Rails at the SWT Centre, Montrose Basin. I have also taken an opportunity to publish a photo which is part of "Onekind's" campaign to stop mass culls of Mountain Hares without any evidence on the effects on populations in different regions in Scotland. They point out that in areas where intensive grouse shooting takes place that hare numbers are kept low.


From Onekind 


Little Egret, Bank of Scotland Hide, Montrose Basin








An odd duck at Keptie Pond, the size of a mallard and with a blue bill and small black "nail" on the tip, the underwing is almost all white with a light grey back edge. Perhaps a hybrid, anyone hazard a guess?


Stock Dove at Keptie Pond, it's there daily and doesn't do much


Unusual to find a Bar-tailed Godwit at Inchcape Park, Arbroath and sitting with the Purple Sandpipers. They flew off to the breakwater when someone threw a ball on the beach


Rock Pipit (Anthus petrosus) with ring JAV at the mouth of the Dighty at Balmossie. 
Ringing date: 07.09.2017, 11 hrs.
Ringing place: Maletangen (62*58'11''N-007*03'16''E) (Maletangen Ornithological Station), Fræna, Møre & Romsdal, Norway.


Barry Buddon lighthouses as seen from Balmossie 



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