Certainly the most seen in any day this year and 100's of meadow brown, 3 small tortoiseshell, about 6 painted lady, about 10 dark green fritillary as well as small heath and 5 or so small copper.
Also a dragonfly sp. zipped by when we were halfway down the trail...not a regular occurrence at this NNR but way too quick for ID purposes!
Plenty of hover flies about and in the small area adjacent to the car park there were quite a few cinnabar moth caterpillars.
Birds still in short supply at St Cyrus but a few willow warbler, whitethroat, sedge and stonechat.
Montrose Basin was livelier with birds such as a single little egret, ruff, dunlin, common sandpiper, 2 osprey, sparrowhawk, kestrel, snipe, greenshank, kingfisher and reed bunting.
A group of canada geese present with 2 separate barnacle goose and 100's of mute swan..Wood and green sandpiper were in the area but not seen.
At high tide, it all became a bit more difficult (and colder) but a good day all in all.
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| Cinnabar Moth Caterpillar (and a hoverfly) |
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| Dark Green Fritillary |
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| Painted Lady |
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| Stonechat |
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