We had spent all of Christmas and New Year at our daughters in Leith managing a day out in between Christmas and New Year, but not much to report from our explorations. We chased a couple of Waxwing reports from within Edinburgh, but each time they had gone by the time we got there, that's life!!
We started the year with a new years day afternoon out on the south shore of the Firth of Forth east of Edinburgh. We started at the Council Concrete Hides overlooking the Musselbrugh Lagoons. It was fairly quite, with nothing out of the ordinary until three Grey Partridge ran across the grass between us and the water:
Other birds on the Lagoons; Lapwing, Wigeon, Teal, Oystercatcher, Mallard, Crow and Black-headed Gull. Some Bullfinch were seen behind the hides on the path, which was very nice.
Back at the boating pool, a pair of Goldenye showed well (in the gloom!) here#s the male:
Also on the pool were a some Mute Swan, Tufted Duck and a couple of Gadwall.
From Musselburgh we ventured further east stopping at Prestonpans and Longniddry before ending up at the estuary at Aberlady. The weather was really murky and with the tide in there wasn't a great deal to see, but we added Eider, Cormorant, Redshank, Shelduck, Black-tailed Godwit and Golden Plover to our new years day tally. So not bad for day one.
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