Oh my!!! What a wonderful sight that must have been K!!!
You've a super set of pictures you've taken lad - very well done.
You've a super set of pictures you've taken lad - very well done.
Heading off to Kilminning tomorrow to try and find the Barred Warbler that's been there all week. Also, Yellow-Browed Warblers reported in the area. Both would be lifers.
Cuckoo-shrike, sorry just seen your post about where to see the WT Eagles from. If you have a scope then the best bet is to head to one of 3 places - Out Head at St Andrews West Sands, the George Evans Hide at the western end of the golf course at Balgove Bay, or the Eden Estuary Centre at Guardbridge. You can see the birds with binoculars too, but the distances mean they will be small dark blobs at best.
There are two large wooden poles in the estuary that the bird(s) sometimes perch on for long periods of time. Views from Guardbridge are very distant but the poles are easy to see out on the horizon. At the George Evans hide the posts are visible at roughly the "12 o'clock" either side of a wind-sock. From Out Head you would be looking back into the river, or even along the beach opposite. The birds can sometimes be seen flying over Reres Wood and Tentsmuir Forest so from any of the vantage points it can be worthwhile scanning above the trees - the birds are unmistakable, and massive.
Not all 'lumps' on the poles are eagles though. Ospreys could still potentially be seen, though the vast majority have usually passed through by now. Cormorants do sometimes perch on the posts, as do gulls. The Eagles have a very hunched vertical pose, and in good light it can be possible to see the lighter head and white tail, and even the wing tag colour.
A few pics on my blog (scroll down to pictures) -
http://stonefactionbirding2014.blogspot.co.uk/2017_09_04_archive.html
(There are some others on other recent posts).
One other tip is to watch for disturbance - when everything is put up there's usually a raptor involved, if it isn't a Peregrine then it will often be a WT Eagle (Sparrowhawks, Buzzards and even Marsh Harriers also possible, though not to the same degree of disturbance).