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  1. aythya_hybrid

    Tayforth Birding

    Visiting my mum in Fife at the moment and had a lovely day on the east coast. Mostly standard stuff at the Eden nature centre (Ruff, Peregrine, 3 Osprey, Canada Geese, and Little Egret was a long overdue Fife tick!). At Kinshaldy/Tenstmuir was very pleasantly surprised to see 2 Black-throated...
  2. aythya_hybrid

    Tayforth Birding

    a day in South Perthshire Alas, this thread doesn't seem as active as it once. However, I'm currently visiting my mum in Fife and thought there'd be no harm in offering a quick synopsis of a fairly productive day in the Amulree/Glen Almond area today. We drove to Dunked then west along the...
  3. aythya_hybrid

    Tayforth Birding

    Followed that up with nice views of the drake Garganey at Rossie Bog this afternoon.
  4. aythya_hybrid

    Tayforth Birding

    Just had a male Marsh Harrier drift low south over my parents house in Ceres.... first one I've seen in Fife away from the Tay reeds. Nice.
  5. aythya_hybrid

    Tayforth Birding

    Hi Delia, yes indeed, getting my annual fix of Angus Glens birding! Glen Clova once again producing the goods....
  6. aythya_hybrid

    Tayforth Birding

    Good views of both Golden Eagle and Ring Ouzel in Glen Clova this afternoon in lovely weather. Also RL Partirdge, Raven, Merlin (mobbing the eagle), wheatear and common stuff. Followed by Osprey and Marsh Harrier at Kinnordy.
  7. aythya_hybrid

    Tayforth Birding

    Just had a quick look at my Hawfinch records at Scone over the years, usually between 4 and 10 but I had 25+ in feb 2010 and 29 in feb 1995, so 30 is certainly an excellent count, but within range. Scone must surely have consistently higher counts of hawfinch than any other UK site.
  8. aythya_hybrid

    Tayforth Birding

    went to Kingsbarns on the fife coast today. Good numbers of long-tailed ducks and r-t divers on the sea, 1 redpoll heard, not much else. Excitement ensued though with a nice male hen harrier quartering fields on the south side of the B940 about 1 mile east of the junction with the A915/Largo...
  9. aythya_hybrid

    Tayforth Birding

    Further tremendously exciting ornithological upates from this part of Fife: now 4 Brambling with the linnet flock at Callange, still no twite. Not much else.
  10. aythya_hybrid

    Tayforth Birding

    Ambling around my usual Christmas neck of the woods in farmland just east of Ceres this morning: not exactly a bonanza, but a nice flock of maybe 60 Yellowhammers, a smattering of tree sparrows, one Brambling briefly at Callange, biggish Linnet flock by Callange (alas, appeared to be...
  11. aythya_hybrid

    Tayforth Birding

    Back in Fife for Christmas. Had 2 Raven around the quarry in Balmullo. This might be old news but these were the first ones I've seen in Fife away from the Lomonds. Also flushed a woodcock but not a whole lot else.
  12. aythya_hybrid

    Tayforth Birding

    In Fife again at the moment. A "raptor watch" from Hill of Tarvit in central Fife this morning yielded 30-40 Buzzards and 5 Sparrowhawks but nothing more interested. Redpoll, Willow Warbler, Jay, GS Woodpecker all heard, and pretty sure i heard a Crossbill but couldn't quite nail it. Also a...
  13. aythya_hybrid

    Tayforth Birding

    Not sure if your photo is intended to show med gull, but the one with the gulls depicts 2 Common and 3 Black-headed Gulls (the latter in various stages of moult into breeding plumage).
  14. aythya_hybrid

    Tayforth Birding

    Oh no, sorry for the lack of clarity: the grebes were at Ruddons Point, and I see from birdguides that today there were 4 RN Grebes and 29 Slavs, so it's fairly grebetastic over there right now, although seaduck numbers seem disappointingly low.
  15. aythya_hybrid

    Tayforth Birding

    Just back from a nice birding weekend based in Fife. Notables included: Saturday: Red-necked Grebe from Lower Largo, 15 Slav Grebe from Ruddons, Merlin near Kilconquhar, 78 Tree Sparrow Ceres, 5 Purple Sands and 1 Kingfisher St. Andrews Castle, 15 Pale-bellied Brents Balgove Bay. Sunday: at...
  16. aythya_hybrid

    Tayforth Birding

    Loving the kraftwerk reference, hopefully a fourth WTE, "Ping," will turn up. Did a spot of birding around Callange east of Ceres today. Encountered a flock of perhaps around 250 Linnets by Coaltown of Callange, with at least 2 Brambling and a Twite in with them. A twite call would emanate from...
  17. aythya_hybrid

    Tayforth Birding

    Visiting my parents in Ceres, Fife, for the festive season. Today encountered a flock of at least 70 Tree Sparrows by the last house in Ceres on the track out to Craigrothie. Nice. More bullfinches than usual. Plus usuals like dipper, buzzard, gs woodpecker....
  18. aythya_hybrid

    Tayforth Birding

    In Fife at the moment and went up Glen Clova with my girlfriend and my parents today. It was pretty good: 2 Golden Eagle showing well, 2 Ring Ouzel on thw scree covered hillside, a few buzzard, 2 kestrel, 1 Spot Fly, 2 Redstart and a few Wheatear. Good times.
  19. aythya_hybrid

    Tayforth Birding

    Hi. Little Bunting was with Reed Buntings at 13.20 this afternoon in bushes by the junction of the public footpath and the road 400m northeast of Coaltown of Callange, just east of Ceres. No sign by further sign by 1510hrs but I will try again tomorrow morning. best, Jonathan
  20. aythya_hybrid

    Tayforth Birding

    Had a walk through Glen Glova today during a visit to the parents in Fife. Had Golden Eagle, Tree Pipit, Crossbill and 2 or 3 Twite. Fantastic weather.
  21. aythya_hybrid

    Tayforth Birding

    Great White Egret in Fife Thought y'all might me interested to know that my parents had a great white egret flying south just south of cupar, fife, today late afternoon. They didn't have binoculars with them at the time but have spoken to my dad about it at length and it sounds solid - I...
  22. aythya_hybrid

    Tayforth Birding

    quite hard to hear but that sounds like a chaffinch contact call.
  23. aythya_hybrid

    Tayforth Birding

    Nice work Ade, 5 Quail is pretty sensational for anywhere in the UK...... I've had Quail twice in Fife but that's my lot for Scotland.
  24. aythya_hybrid

    Tayforth Birding

    spent yesterday/this morning in Speyside, then popped into Pass of Killiecrankie National Trust place on the way back this afternoon. Great views of a pair of Pied Flycatcher using a nestbox between the visitor centre and Soldier's Leap, plus another singing nearby. 2+ Garden Warbler and loads...
  25. aythya_hybrid

    Tayforth Birding

    Inspired by Steve's report, myself - along with my parents - headed up to the same area. The day's totals included: Red Kite - 2 just north of Gilmerton on the way out and 3 on the way back Black Grouse - 1 male just north of Gilmerton Osprey - ditto Red Grouse - 1 seen and a few heard in Glen...
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