Scotland list (1 Viewer)

[digi-birder]

Here's the full list, only 88 as it turns out. We double counted one or two in the note book. In order, more or less, as we saw them.

Common Stonechat (Saxicola torquata)
Meadow Pipit (Anthus pratensis)
Slavonian (Horned) Grebe (Podiceps auritis)
Black-headed Gull (Larus ridibundus)
Coal Tit (Parus ater)
Common Chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs)
Common Buzzard (Buteo buteo)
Eurasian Curlew (Numenius arquata)
Carrion Crow (Corvus corone)
Goldcrest (Regulus regulus)
Winter Wren (Troglodytes troglodytes)
Reed Bunting (Emberiza schoeniclus)
Eurasian Oystercatcher (Haematopus ostralegus)
Common Sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucos)
Common Starling (Sturnus vulgaris)
Greylag Goose (Anser anser)
Willow Warbler (Phylloscopus trochilus)
Great Tit (Parus major)
Dipper (Cinclus cinclus)
Common Redshank (Tringa totanus)
Tufted Duck (Aythya fuligula)
Lesser Black-backed Gull (Larus fuscus)
Osprey (Pandion haliaetus)
Jackdaw (Corvus monedula)
Rook (Corvus frugilegus)
Blackbird (Turdus merula)
Blue Tit (Parus caeruleus)
Hooded Crow (Corvus cornix)
Red Kite (Milvus milvus)
House Sparrow (Passer domesticus)
European Robin (Erithacus rubecula)
Herring Gull (Larus argentatus)
Great Black-backed Gull (Larus marinus)
Mute Swan (Cygnus olor)
Black Swan (?) (Cygnus atratus)
Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos)
Common Shelduck (Tadorna tadorna)
European Greenfinch (Carduelis chloris)
Barn Swallow (Hirundo rustica)
Common Swift (Apus apus)
Common House Martin (Delichon urbica)
Grey Heron (Ardea cinerea)
European Goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis)
Pied Wagtail (Motacilla alba)
Northern Lapwing (Vanellus vanellus)
Common Tern (Sterna hirundo)
Dunnock (Prunella modularis)
Woodpigeon (Columba palumbus)
Common Magpie (Pica pica)
Eurasian Treecreeper (Certhia familiaris)
Common Redstart (Phoenicurus phoenicurus)
Common Gull (Larus canus)
Red-breasted Merganser (Mergus serrator)
Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo)
Common Skylark (Alauda arvensis)
Common Linnet (Carduelis cannabina)
Canada Goose (Branta canadensis)
Common Eider (Somateria mollissima)
Eurasian Collared Dove (Streptopelia decaocto)
Great Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocopos major)
Crested Tit (Parus cristatus)
Eurasian Siskin (Carduelis spinus)
Yellowhammer (Emberiza citrinella)
Northern Wheatear (Oenanthe oenanthe)
Mistle Thrush (Turdus viscivorus)
Common Pheasant (Phasianus colchicus)
Common Ringed Plover (Charadrius hiaticula)
Black Guillemot (Cepphus grylle)
Spotted Flycatcher (Muscicapa striata)
Common Raven (Corvus corax)
Black-throated Diver (Loon) (Gavia arctica)
Long-tailed Tit (Aegithalos caudatus)
Grey Wagtail (Motacilla cinerea)
Little Grebe (Tachybaptus ruficollis)
Crossbill (? which one - plumping for Common - Loxia curvirostra)
Tree Pipit (Anthus trivialis)
Common Guillemot (Uria aalge)
Northern Fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis)
Common Goldeneye (Bucephala clangula)
Great Crested Grebe (Podiceps cristatus)
Common Moorhen (Gallinula chloropus)
Eurasian Coot (Fulica atra)
Eurasian Wigeon (Anas penelope)
Northern Shoveler (Anas clypeata)
Short-eared Owl (Asio flammeus)
Common Pochard (Aythya ferina)
Common Teal (Anas crecca)
Gadwall (Anas strepera)

 

[Andrew]

The Osprey would be a British lifer and the Hooded Crow, Red Kite, Eider, Crested Tit, Black Guillemot, Crossbill and Short Eared Owl would be lifers for me. That is enough reason to go up to Scotland, isn't it?

 

[gordon hamlett]

We missed Short-eared Owl from your list (plus the escaped Black Swan)

Other birds we have seen in the past in the middle two weeks of May but didn't catch up with this time included:-

Chiffchaff
Whitethroat
Grasshopper Warbler
Spotted Crake (hear only)
Dotterel
Snow Bunting
Velvet Scoter
Long-tailed Duck
Pied Flycatcher
Hen Harrier
Tree Sparrow
Pintail
Barnacle Goose
Fieldfare
Long-eared Owl
Little Tern
Green Sandpiper
Wood Sandpiper
Purple Sandpiper
Manx Shearwater

Mind you, we did finish our trip on 152 species so didn't do badly <grin>

Gordon