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A wander round Kinneil Lagoon on Monday 8th produced at 2 ruff, greenshank, lots of black-tailed godwit, curlew,lapwing, oystercatchers. Teal, mallard and plenty of immature shelduck around as well. I was particularly pleased with the ruff which I hadn'r seen before. They were pointed out by a... -
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Had my first wander of the year round Gartmorn Dam this morning; it's still frozen over except for a small area by the outflow which was full of mutes, mallards and a single greylag. No other birds visible on the water other than BHGs. The woods showed up flocks of tits, long tailed, blue... -
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Had my first visit to Kinneil lagoon for 2011 on Friday; the green-winged teal is still there. Apparently there are currently 24 in Britain and Ireland. Other than that teal and shelduck in three figures, a very distant long-tailed duck (I think) oystercatchers, redshank, curlew, dunlin... -
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A pair of obliging redpolls; can anyone give me a positive ID on which variety please? -
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These two female goldeneye look as though they have different shaped heads; any chance one could be a Barrow's or is that pure wishful thinking? Andrew -
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Deeply jealous of those waxwings. I may be the only person to have seen one solitary waxwing; no flock; just one. Still, one's better than none. Well done for those beautiful photos -
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It really is ridiculous how often they are seen at supermarkets; I saw some at Morrison's in Stirling a year past in the spring. I hope the ones on Doune and Callander were using local shops. Andrew -
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I like the photos; good to see the forum active again; I was wondering where everyone was the last couple of weeks. Andrew -
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Back to Kinneil again this afternoon; first thing I saw, both little egrets in the burn. Followed their progress for a couple of hours in among black-tailed godwit, possibly bar-tailed as well, lapwing by the hundred, ditto golden plover, redshank, dunlin and lots of curlew. On the duck... -
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Down at my usual Monday sprint up and down the Devon at Cambus. Several goosander coming out of eclipse plumage, teal, mallard. Shoals of heron, a dipper, and wave after wave of geese. Then to cap it all yet another little egret (or maybe one of the ones I saw at Kinneil a fortnight ago)... -
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Two little egrets a Kinneil Lagoons today; I was trying to get close to one when the second flew by following a heron. The two were feeding well apart but then they approached each other and started squabbling. One flew off, pursued by the other, then they split and fed at different ends of... -
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Yes; still derelict; prone to fly tipping and generally ugly, but teems with birds; shelduck by the hundred as well as other duck, waders in huge numbers at various times, herons, raptors, lots of warblers in the spring, the odd fox, haven't seen the owls though. Not pretty but it has its... -
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Daft day to go to Kinneil; dull, started to smir, tide far out so all the waders well out of range, sewage ponging gently; then I spotted a little egret so it didn't seem quite so daft a day to be out, wonder if it's the one from Montrose working its way south again? Just got the one photo... -
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My usual wander down the Devon at Cambus on Thursday; 8 goosander at the weir, family of gadwall in the second pool and a group of teal on the flooded field. Small mystery, though, looking for suggestions. This raptor was on a tree and floated across to one nearby when it saw me. It looks... -
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Down at Cambus this morning. The bench down at the pool has been smashed to splinters and a tree chopped down and left. Lots of Shelduck on the Devon and also on land; at least 35 around, also a single Gadwall (first I've spotted there). Attached photo shows mallard with a brood of 12... -
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Went to Ruddons Point for the first time last Tuesday; didn't see any of Scoters etc, although there was a large raft of duck beyond the limits of my binoculars. The shore birds were being very obliging though and I ended up with satisfactory photos of wheatear, skylark, whitethroat, reed... -
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clucking in clacks I thought I would record some of what I've been seeing since I seem to be out birding a couple of times a week; Friday (16th April) went down to Cambus; started well, along the river there were 6 herons; 2 obligingly took to flight so I managed all six in the same photo...