Eastfield is little more than 1km from my apartment for the week at Fisherrow harbour and I spent the day birding here. Nothing new to report but more great views of seabirds, ducks and waders.
I started off just after sunrise at the harbour. Lots of red skies in the early daylight, beautiful to see but also a precursor of a cold weather system moving in from the west bringing with it the threat of snow to the west of Scotland. No snow here on the east coast today but after the calm and gentle start the wind picked up and it was bitterly cold.
Musselburgh beach at dawn.
The long-tailed ducks here are fabulous. I've never yet see an immature here, they're all adults and 90% of them seem to be males.
This pale (leucistic I assume) dunlin was in the harbour.
There's been a ring-billed gull on and off here at Eastfield for the past couple of winters. It's not obvious from this photo but many gulls come here to bathe. No sign of the ring-billed for me but it was a nice sheltered spot to scan the sea, and at low tide the sea doesn't go as far out here as it does on the other side of the harbour.
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