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Montrose Basin and the surrounding area (2 Viewers)

Yes I've posted on that thread Delia, funnily enough just back from scrumping Hazelnuts and saw a couple on the village park, they also nest in my daughters garden up Corsiehill in Perth.
 
In the Glens I would expect that, but I'm on the coast and there are no gamekeepers round here, talking to villagers, they don't remember seeing any in their childhoods either, most odd. I remember recording one to the ADBC 15 years ago or more and it caused quite a commotion at the time, seen them in Dundee, Forfar and Aberdeen, but not in the countryside.
Yeah, that's why I mentioned farmers as well. Farms fill the gaps between glens and towns/villages in Angus and farmers are not keen on corvids either. There weren't any in Dundee when I was a kid either, nor in any of the surrounding countryside. BTO maps from atlas 2007-11, lets you look back to distribution in 1968-72 and 1988-1991
 
Had an hour or so in the BoS hide, not much about on a very windy day, star would be a brief view of a Water Rail, a Little Egret and a couple of Herons, further out there were Eiders, a lot of Lapwing, Golden Plover, Curlew, Knot and Redshank, a Red Fox was spotted just before we arrived.
Added a short video clip, no sound
Winday day at Montrose by tigerburnie, on Flickr
 
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