Tuesday, April 21, 2015
We were eating lunch in the car at Badentarbat when Greger saw a whimbrel fly in. Two more came flying along the beach and landed not too far away. In all we saw four, possibly five.
A great skua flew strongly over, too fast for me to get the camera on it. Something reddish went bounding along among the stones, and I just got a shot in landscape mode through the car window before it was out of sight; but we could follow the stoat's progress because of the gulls mobbing it.
Perhaps it was heading for a seal carcase further along the shore. That's the sort of thing an ivory gull would like, but the ivory is long gone.
Three of four mergansers - seemingly two pairs.
There was constant aggro, with the males alternately displaying and quarrelling. Two great northern divers, a pair of red-throated divers, several wheatears, and many stonechats were other birds of note; and a dozen or so golden plovers that went down in a distant field looked fabulous in breeding plumage.
// posted by Christine @ 11:50 AM 
