Short-eared Owl with Brown Hare cameo!

   
I decided to try for a better view of the Green-winged Teal from the previous post, and did get better media of the sleeping drake at the Slunks the Mains of Dun side.

I also got a better view of a Ruff I'd seen the day before, and a very welcome surprise and reward for a hard walk, a Short-eared Owl between the two hides. 

Videos below, click links to view. 

Short-eared Owl video-bombed by a Brown Hare      Short-eared Owl (wind affected)      Ruff and 2 Greenshanks      Green-winged Teal sleeping

Photos are "best efforts" in poor conditions with my P1000, just too dull and windy........

 

A screen grab from the video above

Green-wing Teal again from the north bank, but still not close enough (not a screen grab just too far away)

A female Pochard near Drimmie Farm on the north bank of Rescobie Loch, it was with a drake, seen from the south bank as access isn't likely from the north. Distance of around 400 metres.

Green-winged Teal (found by Dan)

   
Well, wind and light not good for seeing and photographing this Green-winged Teal, but at least it was still in the Slunks where Dan Pointon had found it.

There was an upside though when an Osprey flew overhead and 73 Whooper Swans flew in from the nearby fields along with 20+ Mute Swans

More to come in the next post..........

Some of the Whooper Swans, click here

Green-winged Teal, unfortunately it was over 170 metres away on the north bank of the South Esk. It's the one sleeping back centre with the vertical white stripe (it has one either side)

This and the next photo will do me for this Osprey season, they were taken when I was trying to get a record of the Teal above. I will of course take more photos of any Ospreys flying close or doing something interesting

Also from the same place at the Lurgies I counted 73 Whooper Swans, some in these two photos and the video above

A male Red-breasted Merganser

I took a number of photos of the Teal flying around after something flushed them, my hope was that I'd get a flight photo of the Green-winged Teal, I found it hadn't moved when the flock took to the air

Most of a flock of Knot seen near the Old Harbour, I might count them later!