Carnoustie area 4-6 August

4 August Crombie Country Park

Nice day today with sunny spells.  Took the short drive from Carnoustie to nearby Crombie and a walk around the country park.  This small loch here used to be a part of the local water suppl but it was discontinued in 1983 and turned into a lovely country park which has nice walks and lots of wildlife.  Today we saw heron, buzzard, cormorant, swallows, martins and roe deer.  No sign of any red squirrels today but we had an excellent sighting the last time we were here.  Another enjoyable outing!

5 August East Haven to Arbroath coastal walk.

East haven is a small hamlet just a couple of miles east of Carnoustie right on the coast and has a stretch of sandy beach going either way to Carnoustie or Arbroath.  It is a good place for spotting seabirds on the rocks and soaring above the sea looking for fish!  It was a lovely sunny day and we decided to walk all the way along the coast to Arbroath - the beaches here are amazing as the sand stretches for miles and miles and not too many people on them, although like most scottish beaches they are windswept!  Today was a nice walk in the sun and we spotted lots of birds including gannets plunging in to the sea, cormorants, eider ducks, curlews, sandpipers, oystercatchers and various other ducks etc.

6 August The Shanwell

The Shanwell is an area of Carnoustie near the high school which consists of a mixture of farmland and woodlands and is a popular place for a walk with locals.  The weather was a bit overcast today so we went for a walk here rather than along the coast and were rewarded with sightings of bullfinches, goldfinches and yellowhammers.