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    Your Most Recent "Life" Bird

    Now listened to Flammulated Owl song on eBird. It was a what we Scots call “a dug” (Canis familiaris). David
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    Your Most Recent "Life" Bird

    Merlin picked up a Flammulated Owl on my walk with the dog last week. Only problem is, it was in East Lothian. I don’t know what a Flammulated Owl sounds like so I can’t tell what call it was misidentifying. Recently had Osprey, actually Nuthatch, and Grey Plover, actually Song Thrush, picked up...
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    Found amongst greylags - Northern England

    Domestic hybrid?
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    easter weekend seahouses northumberland 29th-31st march

    Have you tried a Forfar Bridie? David
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    easter weekend seahouses northumberland 29th-31st march

    Minced mutton with lots of pepper, they are also called mutton pies. Other spices may be used, bakeries have their own recipes. There is an annual world championship. https://worldchampionshipscotchpieawards.org/winners.php Typically served with chips and baked beans. The same pastry is used...
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    Curlew Confusion

    It’s a Whimbrel. You can see the pale stripe on the crown.
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    Musselburgh

    Musselburgh is well served by buses. From Edinburgh the most direct services are https://www.lothianbuses.com/timetable/?service_name=26 https://www.lothianbuses.com/timetable/?service_name=44 https://www.lothianbuses.com/timetable/?service_name=113 A day ticket is £5.00 for the city zone. You...
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    Bewick's Swans in Scotland

    Beat me to it and your answer is better!
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    Bewick's Swans in Scotland

    Our Whooper Swans mostly come from Iceland. Numbers in Lothian seem to be stable. David
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    Bewick's Swans in Scotland

    Small numbers of Bewick’s Swans used to winter among the Whooper Swans in East Lothian but are now extremely rare. An excellent resource for historical Scottish bird records is https://www.the-soc.org.uk/pages/online-scottish-bird-report Bewick’s was annual in Lothian between 1978 and 1997 and...
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    Musselburgh Lagoons new scrape and hides finished

    It is. But the buses are so regular you shouldn't need to. https://www.lothianbuses.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/44_210912.pdf https://www.lothianbuses.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/26_210912.pdf
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    Self-sustaining Common Crane population in the UK

    They have certainly increased in this part of southern Scotland, as passage migrants. They have become annual since 2018, whereas there had been 16 records up to then. The English population is non-migratory, although it is dispersive. That does not prove the authors' speculation, but it does...
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    Self-sustaining Common Crane population in the UK

    It was in a BB article on the Scottish population. They are migratory “We believe that the Scottish recolonisation is most likely linked to recent increases in the western European and Scandinavian populations, rather than from birds originating in England. The northeastern bias in Scottish...
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    Self-sustaining Common Crane population in the UK

    The Scottish population is thought to be a separate colonisation. They are probably an outlier of the Norwegian population rather than originating from England. David
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    Western Scotland birding

    I had a Red-throated Diver at Lochwinnoch in January 1986. David
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