Reserve Sightings
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Over the last few days we have been lucky enough to count a male Blackcap as one of our regular visitors, seen regularly feeding on the apples that we have …
Reserve Sightings
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The latest Icelandic Goose Count (IGC) was carried out on the reserve this morning, with a total of 7,404 Pink Footed Geese counted. Following the trend from previous counts this …
Grey Phalarope
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The Grey Phalarope first spotted in Arbroath on Tuesday has stuck around the local area, being found at Carnoustie from Thursday to Saturday, before moving up the coast to Westhaven …
White – Tailed Eagle Update
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The White-Tailed Eagle that was spotted last Thursday (24th October) hung around on the reserve for a further 2 days, being spotted again on Friday the 25th and Saturday the …
White Tailed Eagle
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It has been a busy day here at the Visitor Centre in terms of raptor sightings. At around 12pm a visitor spotted a White-Tailed Eagle sitting out on the mud. …
Reserve Sightings
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Despite the past weeks (predominantly) awful weather, there have still been plenty of good sightings here at Montrose Basin. Although becoming anything but a rare sight here at the Visitor Centre, …
Pink-footed geese count continued…
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With the pink-footed geese count back up to the 40,000 mark it seems likely that we’re getting a steady stream of migrants this year, with them only stopping over for …
Wader varieties at Montrose Basin – part 3.
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This week we’ll be looking at the last of the waders you’re most likely to see at Montrose (of course there are more, but they’re just not as common). This …
Icelandic Goose Count
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32,891 Pink Footed Geese were counted on the Icelandic Goose Count this morning. Although we had hoped for a peak count today, the highest count has still been the 46,769 on Tuesday.This …
Pink Footed Goose Count
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Our hardy volunteers got up bright and early this morning and headed out onto the reserve to carry out a Pink Footed Goose count, arriving at a final number of …