Marsh Harrier

Started off at Tyninghame and failed to see much other than maybe 5 or 6 Greenshanks.

Kilspindie in early afternoon was better with 1 Curlew Sand, 2 Greenshank, 1 Black Tailed Godwit and 5 Little Egret. This female Marsh Harrier flew west at 2:45:

Marsh Harrier

Ruff Weekend

Taken from the wooden bridge at Aberlady:

Ruff

In total there were 5 Ruff present.

Earlier off Longniddry I had 2 Red Necked Grebes and an Arctic Skua chasing Terns. Aberlady also produced Greenshank, Black Tailed Godwit & Sanderling. There was a small raft of Common Scoter off Gullane Point.

At Baron's Haugh on the Saturday there were at least 7 Ruff, 1 Green Sandpiper, 4 Black Tailed Godwit & Snipe.

Black Tailed Godwit

Seawatch

Troon harbour headland on Saturday morning 9:30 to 11:30. Hundreds going on a thousand Manx going past some quite close in. All of a sudden at 11:30 nothing............. everything stopped, never experienced such an abrupt halt before. Went home.

Croatia

Super holiday to Croatia staying in the 5 star Croatia Hotel in Cavtat. A big step up in quality for us but after last year fiasco in Crete we were never going budget again. As I suspected, the range of bird species was limited, indeed I hardly used the binoculars at all. Highlights were frequent Alpine Swift over the hotel, Sardinian Warbler showing well from the hotel balcony, Yellow Legged Gull and a calling Scops Owl outside the hotel on the last evening. Spent a lot of time with the camera:

Cavtat

Cavtat

Cavtat

Cavtat

Cavtat

Dubrovnick Old Town

Dubrovnick Old Town from the City Walls

Dubrovnick Old Town from the City Walls

Dubrovnick Old Town from the City Walls

Dubrovnick

Lokrum Island

Lokrum Island

Dubrovnick from Lokrum Island

Lokrum Island

Lokrum Island

Lokrum Island

In a Mood

Croatian Sunset