Birded my Lochwinnoch patch first thing LT duck, 3 scaup & GWE highlights.
Spent an hour birding Newshot island, American wigeon still present mostly sleeping during heavy rain
#digiscoped with kowa884 using iphone16Pro and vario adapter
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Not sure but it looks like they are getting on well with the timber fence. You can still get to channel hide and access the Aird meadow trail via temp routes. Reserve staff should be able to give you more information
After a few days in birding in Suffolk and Yorkshire it’s back to the reality of birding my Lochwinnoch patch. GWE showed well. Highlights was a redshank a patch year tick my 80th
Managed to get a couple of hours of birding while back in Yorkshire. Red-necked Grebe showed well at Hornsea Mere. #Digiscoped with Kowa884 using iphone16Pro and vario adapter.
Days birding started with Hume’s Warbler at Lowestoft, mostly high up in pine but got good but brief views in hedge, nice, over 20 since my last. Did bit of birding around Horsey before heading to to Hull see family in with 3 mile detour to way to see GGShirke.
Cracking full days birding along the Suffolk coast. Lots of good birds seen today include the Zitting Cisticola, 4 shorelarks, woodlarks, dartford warblers, spotted redshank, bittern, bearded tits etc. also my first adder and butterfly of the year. Walked miles mostly on shingle beaches
Opened the curtains this morning to see my first pipistrelle bat bus feeding just outside my window
Birded the Blackstoun Farm rhubarb fields this morning 2 brambling among 280+ chaffinch.
Then visited the reservoirs at Dams to Darnley, L. Egret on Balgray, at Littleton a stunning Drake scaup and 2 pochard
Digiscoped with kowa884 using iphone16Pro and vario adapter #birdingscotland
Great White Egret in the rain at Barr Loch, Lochwinnoch today. #digiscoped with kowa884 using iphone16Pro and vario adapter #birdingscotland
Rainy, dull, cold days birding. Got soaked birding my Lochwinnoch patch only thing of note GWE. Visited Newshot Island America wigeon, Lt duck and 2 scaup still present #birdingscotand #clydebirding
LT ducks wintering on kilbirnie loch did the descent thing and came over to Barr Loch a patch year tick. Great white egret, 3 scaup plus all the usual stuff #birdingscotland #clydebirsing
A cold, windy and often very wet morning birding Ardmore, Craigendoran and Cardross. Highlights including a total of 9 Slavonian grebe, c80 GCGs, single RT Diver, 20+ pintail and single L Egret #birdingscotland #clydebirding
Birding my Lochwinnoch patch is starting to feel like Groundhog Day with the same stuff for past month - GWE and 3 scaup on Barr Loch the highlights
Peregrine in Greenock, #digiscoped with kowa884 using iPhone16Pro using vario adapter in breezy conditions
I suspect so, bit earlier than previous years
Quick lunchtime visit to Frankfield Loch, Glasgow to see the Red-necked Grebe. Very poor light, with light rain, bitterly cold and windy but bird showed well. #birdingscotland #clydebirding
Digiscoped with kowa884 using iphone16Pro and vario adapter
Single Russian white-fronted goose off Candren Road, Linwood today with Pink feet. Digiscoped with kowa884 using iphone16Pro and vario adapter #birdingscotland #clydebirding
Caught up with Ring-necked Duck, Queens Park, Glasgow earlier today.
#digiscoped with Kowa884 using iphone16Pro and vario adapter #birdingscotland #RareBirdsUK
Spent the morning birding my Lochwinnoch patch. Highlights including Great White Egret and pair of Scaup. Digiscoped with kowa884 using iphone16Pro and vario adapter #birdingscotland #clydebirding
A great days birding started with Black Grouse lek at first light, before birding north side of the Clyde, LT duck and Barnacle Goose added to year list. Digiscoped at distance and heavily cropped.
Northern Lights over Castle Semple #lochwinnoch this evening photographed with iphone16pro #northernlights
First dip of the year - missed the RB gull at Strathclyde Park late afternoon. Couple of Mediterranean Gulls (ad & 2nd winter) in the roost #birdingscotland #clydebirding
Working most of the day but managed get finished just in time to check Strathclyde Loch on my way home. 2nd calendar Mediterranean Gull was highlight. I actually like this shot of med gull here with 3 BHs
Spend a couple of hours birding Ardmore and Clyde coast today. Highlights lovely views of pintail, peregrine perched in its usual tree, 8+ Slavonian grebes, 3 RT divers, American wigeon x Eurasian wigeon hybrid and Norwegian ringed Bar-tailed godwit plus all the usual stuff #birdingscotland
Sleeping Smew showed well at Broadwood Loch at first light.No sign on RN Ducks at usual places which where mostly frozen. American Wigeon again mostly sleeping at Newshot island. Digiscoped with Iowa 884 using iPhone16pro and various adapter. #birdingscotland
Birded my Lochwinnoch patch first thing (curlew added to patch year list). Then went to Blackstoun Farm rhubarb fields, large flock of skylarks, chaffinch and linnets, but highlight was a single twite and 2 brambling
Morning off work allowed me to bird my Lochwinnoch patch first thing. Jay added to patch year list. Patch 99% frozen with only two small patches of open water . Highlights a single Drake scaup and shoveler with c300 duck and c600 geese and all the usual suspects.
Post work 90 minutes checking Gulls at Strathclyde park - bitterly cold, had hoped for a white-winged gull or something good, but sadly not to be. Highlight was a Norwegian ringed common gull (from Bergen) and 3 Clyde colour ringed BH Gulls
Bitterly cold afternoon birding my lochwinnoch patch. Highlight was a patch tick with 2 Russian White-fronted geese briefly on Barr loch before flying off south #digiscoped with kowa884 using vario adapter and iphone16Pro #birdingscotland #clydebirding
Good start to the patch year list. Highlights of an afternoon birding on my Lochwinnoch patch today were Drake scaup and Great White Egret.
