Sunday, 28 October 2018

W/c 22 October 2018

Kinghorn Harbour

2 Hour Seawatch:

1 Arctic Skua
No Poms
5 Long Tailed Duck
Common Scoter
Guillemot
1 Common or Arctic Tern

Monday, 15 October 2018

W/c 15 October 2018

Crawford - South Lanarkshire

Bee Eater


Wanlockhead

Failed to see any Red Grouse from the Road
2 Ravens
2 Buzzard
Stonechat

Skinflats

Feruginous Duck
2 Scaup
Pochard
95 Whooper Swan
Fieldfare
Redwing
15 Tree Sparrow
Black Tailed Godwit
2 juv Gannets
Lots of Pink Feet flying over

Feruginous Duck 


Monday, 8 October 2018

W/c 8 October 2018

Heritage Loch Run

1 Kingfisher
8 Lapwing
At least 7 Little Grebe
Tufted Duck

Cambuslang

1st Redwings
Increase in Song Thrushes

East Lothian

2 Yellow Browed - Torness
2 Yellow Browed - Skateraw
2 Brambling - Torness
2 Brambling & 1 Snow Bunting - between Skateraw & Barns Ness
1 probable Lesser Whitethroat - Skateraw

Snow Bunting from an earlier visit to Skateraw

Slamannan

No sign of any Bean Geese
Greylag Geese
Canada Geese
Buzzard

Garnqueen Loch

Again no sign of Ruddy Duck

Sunday, 7 October 2018

W/c 1 October 2018

Heritage Loch Run

Little Grebe
Grey Wagtail
Siskin

Hogganfield Loch

Juv Black Tern - still present
4 Whooper Swans now back
1 Goldeneye
Gadwall
Great Crested Grebe
Little Grebe

Frankfield Loch

Still some Lapwing & Snipe present - water level now much higher

Garnqueen Loch

No sign of any Ruddy Duck





1 of 4 = now back for the winter



Monday, 24 September 2018

W/c 24 September 18

Heritage Loch Runs

Little Grebe
Canada Goose
Grey Lag Goose
Grey Wagtail
Siskin

Kinghorn Harbour

1 Arctic Skua
1 Bonxie
Many Gannets
Wigeon
Eider
Turnstone
At least 5 Dolphins

Kinneil

Greenshank
Many roosting Black Tailed Godwit
7 Golden Plover
Dunlin
Knot
Lapwing
Shelduck
Teal
7 Juv Gannets - do they normally get this far up ?

Part of large numbers of roosting Blackwits at Kinneil



Grangemouth Refinery



Saturday, 22 September 2018

W/c 17 September 18

Balgray Reservoir

Grey Phalarope
Black Tailed Godwit
Dunlin
Ringed Plover
Great Crested Grebe

Stevenston Point

Sanderling
Ringed Plover
Dunlin
Sandwich Tern
Red Throated Diver
Harbour Porpoise

Irvine Harbour

Wigeon
Lapwing
Turnstone

Frankfield Loch

Still several hundred Lapwing
Snipe
Teal
Gadwall
Shoveler

Hogganfield Loch

Black Tern juvenile
Great Crested Grebe

Juvenile Black Tern

Great Crested Grebe - Hogganfield

Barns Ness

Woodchat Shrike
Rose Coloured Starling - Juvenile
Wheatear





Torness

Purple Sandpiper
Red Throated Diver
Guillemot




Sunday, 16 September 2018

W/C 10 September 18

Musselburgh

Pectoral Sandpiper
c6 Ruff
White Winged Scoter
Slav Grebe
Red Throated Diver
2 Stock Dove

Aberlady

Short Eared Owl
Peregrine
2 Greenshank
c15 GoldenPlover
2 Pintail
2 Little Egret
500 Pink Feet

Frankfield Loch

Garganey
500 Lapwing
c15 Snipe
Gadwall
Shoveler
Kingfisher

Garganey - Frankfield Loch

Lapwing - Frankfield Loch 1 of over 500 present