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Recent content by sdoig

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    Tayforth Birding

    Forfar Loch with Ian Graham (Arbroath Birder) & my bairn, Sam this afternoon Very good session - over 40 species seen. We are stumped on a species of duck however. It was on the wee spit off the first viewpoint (where the Ring Necked Duck was) It was roosting the whole time so we never got a...
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    Funny Bird - Murton, Angus, Scotland

    Yep, i think you're quite right. Usually see them in twos and obviously the male is an easier spot!!
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    Funny Bird - Murton, Angus, Scotland

    Seen by myself and Ian Graham this afternoon, and its got us stumped!! Rubbishy photos I know, but if you zoom in, hopefully enough detail is visible!! Cheers!!
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    Stormont Loch, Perthshire

    Theres about three clearings along the track which give a half decent view of the loch . (As a former fisherman myself, I can tell that the clearings have probably been created by fisherman to give a space for casting out etc, what a mess of discarded cans etc there was. :( ) No sign of a hide!
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    Stormont Loch, Perthshire

    Me and Ian Graham had a walk round Stormont last Wednesday. I've passed it from the road so many times without havin ga look. The first thing that struck us was the amount of Mute Swan!! - I counted 120 but that was only from one clearing and there could realistically have been upwards of...
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    Crombie Country Park

    This place is really bonny. The water itself is cracking, with lots of open spots and other nice wee secluded bays. There is a huge amount of very varied woodland - birch, conifers, mature park like stands and theres also some scrub and small patches of moorland. So why have I always frankly...
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    How many lists?

    Alright min?! I keep a scottish list, a UK list and a world list. Also keep a yearly Scottish list. I keep a garden list, my shop close list, and a list of a few reserves, thats when it gets tricky, coz what if you see a bird from the reserve thats new for your list, but the bird is actually...
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    New member, complete novice

    a wee tip from me to help with the wee birds. - Do you have a garden? If so, get a feeding station out - you'll soon get the hang of the wee stuff that turns up , and that should help when your out and about for when you see something unfamiliar! If you dont have a suitable garden , then try...
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    Tayforth Birding

    I dont get out much now, but i had a successful trip to Forfar Loch with my faither this morning which is worth a post!! Started off at the turfbeg car park. A bad start because i've always found a few house sparrow ther but the place was silent!! Walking along the road i found a few blackbird...
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    Tayforth Birding

    What I suspected (honest!!) - can't really see it on the pics but they both ahd a very obvious brown 'bib' which probably sanderling have but maybe I just saw them at an angle i wasnae familiar with!! Cheers!
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    Tayforth Birding

    Had these two wee guys loosely hanging aboot with some ringed plover at Elliot today, I'm stuck - can anyone ID them!! I ken the qaulity is awful, but if you zoom you might have a clue!! ta
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    Tayforth Birding

    You can buy those sticky mouse traps in the shop next to mine in montrose, so am presuming they are legal? but, yes, horrible and nasty
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    Tayforth Birding

    regarding Jays in Dundee, i have seen a puckle at the edge of the caird park on the road toward the trottick mill ponds, but the 'hot' spot for me just now is any patch of grass beside the 'swallow hotel' roundabout (or whatever its called now), think the last half dozen times i've driven past...
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    Funny gull at Princes Street Gardens

    Size was maybe not too far off, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't!!
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    Funny gull at Princes Street Gardens

    This was on Wednesday, sorry to leave it so late. Me and the wife were killing a bit of time. WE were aitting on a bench at the top path. I was watching the Herring and Black backed gulls, and then this odd gull appeared and sat on the fence by the road. It was probably a second year, and it...
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