7th - 9th February

A few days mooching around the Aberdeenshire coast, starting off nice, sunny and pleasant but deteriorating to a blazing wind on the 9th but generally still remaining sunny; highlights were scarce with scanning through thousands of Gulls not being too productive with the exception being a juvenile Glaucous Gull in Peterhead Harbour on the 7th.   Other little bits in amongst all the Gulls, Eiders, Mergansers, waders, Stonechats, sunshine and wind included a nice roost of 75+ Purple Sandpipers at Buchanhaven, north side of Peterhead on the 7th, a Black Redstart by the harbour in Rosehearty, good views of a long-staying drake American Wigeon on Fedderate Reservoir, inland from Fraserburgh and a nice little group of 5 Corn Buntings on the western edge of Fraserburgh whilst unsuccessfully searching through thousands of Gulls in the strong wind along the stretch of coast between Rosehearty and Fraserburgh.  

Glaucous Gull

Eiders in Peterhead Harbour

Turnstone

Carrion Crow

Rooks on the beach at Rosehearty

American Wigeon record shot