Mute swan at Seafield Pond - Belhaven Bay
Mute swan at Seafield Pond - Belhaven Bay, East Lothian
Mute swan at Seafield Pond - Belhaven Bay, East Lothian
Mute swan at Seafield Pond - Belhaven Bay, East Lothian
The #muteswans appeared to be very chilled out on the calm waters of #SeafieldPond #BelhavenBay #EastLothian today, inbetween bouts of preening and gliding along
Pile of stones at Belhaven bay
Horse rider at Belhaven Bay
Sea fishing at Belhaven Bay
Sand dunes behind the beach at Belhaven Bay
A good stride out around #JohnMuirCountryPark #JMCP and #BelhavenBay today - pretty changeable and murky weather but good to stretch the legs and get a post Christmas dose of fresh air.
#winterwalks #beachwalks #VisitEastLothian
Curlew on mudflats in East Lothian
Curlew proving its bill into the mud for food
Curlew with its head almost submerged into the mud for food
Curlew probing for food
#Curlew feeding in the mud at #BelhavenBay. You can see the nictitating membrane — a thin, translucent third eyelid that moves sideways across the eye - as it probes its beak (and almost its full head) into the mud for food. Mainly lugworms this time, but the occasional wee fish too.
#birds #bird
Lapwings (Peewits) at Belhaven Bay
Lapwings on saltmarsh
Lapwing on saltmarsh
#lapwings #peewits feeding or resting on the saltmarsh at #BelhavenBay #EastLothian Sadly they are #redlisted, under the BOU’s Birds of Conservation Concern, due to their falling numbers. The changes are linked to habitat loss or changes in quality and changes in farming practices.
#BOCC
Mute swan
Mute swan
An unsually high number (9) of adult mute swans at on Seafield Pond, #BelhavenBay yesterday. The resident cob was trying to maintain his territory - puffing up his wings as he chased down on the incomers.
#EastLothian #MuteSwans #ScottishBirds #Birds #WildlifePhotography #AutumnNature #UKBirds
Grey heron hunkered down
Bass rock from Belhaven bay
Grey heron skirmish
Sunset at Belhaven
Beautiful light at Belhaven Bay yesterday. This grey heron was perfectly at ease just over the seawall, unfazed by walkers and cyclists passing by. A quick skirmish with another heron broke the calm …
#BelhavenBay #EastLothian #WildlifePhotography #GreyHeron #NatureMoments #Sunset
Bass Rock from Belhaven Bay during Storm Floris
Breezy down at #BelhavenBay with sand blown views to the #BassRock as #StormFloris blows through
#EastLothian #Dunbar
A black and white photo with a large expanse of sky at the top, a large expanse of sand at the bottom, and a thin sliver of sea in the middle with a surfer looking for the best place to enter the North Sea
Big skies and wide open sands almost make the surfer disappear as he searches for a place to enter the North Sea
#photography #monochrome #blackandwhite #surfing #scotland #eastlothian #belhavenbay #EastCoastKin
Canada geese in East Lothian
Day 14 #30DaysWild
- it’s the turn of the #CanadaGeese at #BelhavenBay. The earliest documented #EastLothian record is 18/08/1968, when a migratory flock of 27 birds was observed at Tynninghame Bay. These are now summer residents.
#Geese #CanadaGoose
Sunset over Belhaven Bay
Sunset over Belhaven Bay
Sunset over #BelhavenBay this evening was lovely … made up for losing our friendly #golf match against #Winterfield ladies.
Goldfinch feeding in the pine trees at Hedderwick plantation, EastLothian
#Goldfinches feeding high up in the pine trees at Hedderwick plantation #BelhavenBay #EastLinton - one of the few #songbirds that feeds primarily on seed heads - another reason to keep those dandelions & thistles in your gardenn
Storm Arwen damage at Hedderwick plantation, Belhaven Bay
Open landscape following storm clear up at Hedderwick plantation
Storm Arwen damage in 2021
Timber stacks following clear up from Storm Arwen
The Hedderwick plantation at #BelhavenBay #EastLothian was largely flattened by #StormArwen in November 2021. The restructuring continues today - creating a much more open landscape ahead of replanting at some point - hopefully with an appropriate #nativetree mix.
It's Friyay!!
Early morning misty sunrise at the salt marsh at Belhaven Bay, East Lothian - there's even a bonus of a wee pup at the left
#visitscotland #eastlothian #belhavenbay #saltmarsh #sunrise #photography #scotland #EastCoastKin
The low sun shines across the brown tidal sands at Belhaven Bay, East Lothian, Scotland, as a lone surfer walks back to the beach
Surf's Up!
Early morning and a lone surfer heads back over the tidal sands of Belhaven Bay in East Lothian, Scotland
#visitscotland #eastlothian #belhavenbay #Dunbar #photography #sunrise #surfing #landscape #EastCoastKin
Grey heron in winter sun at Belhaven Bay
A #greyheron hunkered down behind the seawall at #Belhavenbay - catching the dropping winter sun.
#EastLothian
Oystercatcher
Redshank
Curlew
A few of the waders at #BelhavenBay - the oystercatcher & redshank are #BoCC classified amber and the curlew remains on the red list due to declines in both its breeding and overwintering populations in the UK
#EastLothian #birding #waders
A VERY rare high key, mono image from me. Very rarely do I take images like this. Wee ghostly children on the left jumping off the bridge #belhavenbay #dunbar #bridgetonowhere #highkey #whites #mono #blackandwhite
