Shelduck counts in winter in east Scotland

tadorna) were made by several observers at Edenmouth on the east coast of Fife. During the same period the writer worked Montrose Basin in Angus and continued the counts a t Kingoodie in Perthshire, on the north shore of the upper Tay estuary. These counts have been plotted a s three graphs, all on the same scale, so that direct comparison is simple (see Figs. 1-3). At Edenmouth the autumn counts ...