Around 40 swallows (with a couple of house martin) , 150+ meadow pipit, skylark, redpoll all flying South as well as 2 whooper swans heading in the other direction.
Mineral Well area was quiet with a few robin and dunnock about and an obliging grey wagtail.
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| Grey Wagtail - Minerall Well, Stonehaven |
Decided to have a wander around Easter Muchalls, a couple of goldcrest still about as well as 5/6 song thrush around clifftop but we did see an edifice looking uncannily like the head of a crow:
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| View from Easter Muchalls cliff edge. |
If there's nothing else there, you can always rely on some easy bison!
Little time on Sunday but a quick nip round Netherley area led to a fleeting but good view of a male hen harrier - one of our most beautiful and persecuted birds of prey. Also in the area were kestrel, buzzard, teal and 2 snipe.
Although it reached 15 degrees on Sunday, winter is not that far away - a November Moth was trapped in the garden just a few days ago and moth catches have dropped to single figures the last two weekends
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| November Moth |
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