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  1. Capercaillie71

    Tayforth Birding

    I got a very quick reply about the colour-ringed twite at Montrose. They had all been ringed at the site where I saw them, one of them as long ago as 2008/09. The study has shown that the Twite wintering here mostly breed in the inner Hebrides from Skye down to Mull, and adjacent parts of the...
  2. Capercaillie71

    Tayforth Birding

    I took a walk to the Wigeon hide at the Montrose Basin at lunchtime today. Nothing too exciting at the hide itself, but there was a nice flock of 70 Twite at the junction where the Wigeon hide track joins the Shelduck Hide track. Mostly feeding on the ground near a dungheap but occasionally...
  3. Capercaillie71

    Tayforth Birding

    I had an interesting sighting of a Peregrine in Perth this evening. It was standing in the middle of the road eating a pigeon between the Broxden roundabout and the smaller roundabout for Broxden Services, completely oblivious to the traffic passing it on either side.
  4. Capercaillie71

    Tayforth Birding

    Last night I heard a distant Quail calling from arable fields to the south of Rossie Moor near Montrose.
  5. Capercaillie71

    Tayforth Birding

    Fantastic pics! Nice to see a real Goshawk on BF for a change!
  6. Capercaillie71

    Tayforth Birding

    There are forest walks from Carie about 3 miles west of KR on the south side of Loch Rannoch - I imagine you will get a good selection of woodland birds here although it was raining hard when I was there! A little further along the same road at Dall (5 miles from KR) there is the entrance to...
  7. Capercaillie71

    Tayforth Birding

    I spent an hour or so at Montreathmont today. I walked up the track past the hide (which I didn't notice until I was coming back) to the row of larches to the left of the track at NO 578 540 and immediately spotted the Great Grey Shrike on top of a small larch tree to the right (east) of the...
  8. Capercaillie71

    Tayforth Birding

    Hi DrTom and welcome to birdforum. I started an ID thread on 3 Bean Geese that I saw just north of Montrose earlier this week, as I was unsure of the race. http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=221157 The general opinion seems to be that most of the Bean Geese that have arrived in...
  9. Capercaillie71

    Tayforth Birding

    I found a group of 28 European White-fronted Geese feeding in a winter cereal field north of Inverkeilor, to the south of Montrose today (NO 661 521). There were about 10 adults, the remainder being first winter birds.
  10. Capercaillie71

    Tayforth Birding

    I had an enjoyable visit to the Wigeon Hide at the Montrose Basin at high tide today. A good selection of waders were roosting at the water's edge: curlew, bar-tailed godwit, redshank, knot, dunlin, oystercatcher. A pure hooded crow was among the carrion crows on the shore. On the basin were...
  11. Capercaillie71

    Tayforth Birding

    I was heading up the A90 past Forfar yesterday afternoon and saw a very white goose landing with a flock of grey geese a couple of miles south of Finavon (NO 471 546). Probably just some sort of domestic greylag type from Rescobie or Balgavies, but at 70mph in fading light I couldn't rule out...
  12. Capercaillie71

    Tayforth Birding

    Joseph - I tried several times for the Scone Hawfinches before I finally saw some. My advice would be to try to get there reasonably early in the morning. I followed the directions as given by Delia above, and wandered up and down the main drive to the east of the palace several times before...
  13. Capercaillie71

    Tayforth Birding

    I heard a Quail calling from a barley field next to the B961 south-west of Friockheim earlier today: http://www.multimap.com/maps/?qs=Friockheim&countryCode=GB#map=56.60661,-2.70058|16|4&dp=os&bd=useful_information&loc=GB:56.60736:-2.70193:16|Friockheim| Also an Osprey fishing over the...
  14. Capercaillie71

    Tayforth Birding

    No, it was further west, between the forestry plantation to the north of the road and where you start dropping down towards Pitlochry.
  15. Capercaillie71

    Tayforth Birding

    I had a superb view of a male hen harrier at Moulin Moor near Pitlochry yesterday morning - it flew across the road right in front of my car. I wish I could still see things like that on Deeside!
  16. Capercaillie71

    Tayforth Birding

    On my way to the Rugby at Murrayfield yesterday lunchtime I passed a Barn owl perched on a fence at the side of the M90, about a mile or two north of junction 8 near Glenfarg. Driving back after dark and I caught a glimpse of it hunting along the verge at about the same place. Unfortunately...
  17. Capercaillie71

    Tayforth Birding

    I think they start charging for entry on 1 April. During the winter, visting is nominally by arrangement, but they don't seem too worried about people visiting the wider grounds. When I first visited a couple of years ago, I did feel a bit like I was trespassing, but yesterday I wandered all...
  18. Capercaillie71

    Tayforth Birding

    He said he'd only tagged one so far. They're difficult to catch apparently.
  19. Capercaillie71

    Tayforth Birding

    Hawfinches - they do exist after all! A couple of winters ago, I had a number of failed attempts to see Hawfinches at Scone Palace (fitting in visits around work meetings in Perth). After reading the report of the latest Scottish bash, I thought I ought to try again. Today I was working not...
  20. Capercaillie71

    Tayforth Birding

    I was at a meeting in Perth today, and out of the window I saw a flock of 15-20 pinkish-looking, starling-sized birds land at the top of a tree about 300 metres away, next to the Caithness Glass roundabout. They stayed for a couple of minutes before flying down the motor mile towards the town...
  21. Capercaillie71

    Tayforth Birding

    It was still there when I just checked the link Delia, but this is what it says: Central Scotland RSG Study on Common Buzzard This study aims to look at the dispersal of Common Buzzards from a long term study area in the Doune/Callander/Aberfoyle area of West Perthshire. There are two...
  22. Capercaillie71

    Tayforth Birding

    The buzzards may have been part of the project mentioned at the bottom of this page: http://www.scottishraptorgroups.org/news.php?month=8&year=2007 There is an email address for reporting sightings
  23. Capercaillie71

    Tayforth Birding

    Just got back from a conference in Crieff and came back the scenic route, by Dunkeld and Braemar. Driving down Strathbraan, I encountered five male black grouse right by the roadside in a grass field near Ballachraggan Farm. They looked really out of place as they were quite some distance from...
  24. Capercaillie71

    Tayforth Birding

    Just in case anyone missed this thread, some great pics of one of the Fife White-tailed Eagles: http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=94523
  25. Capercaillie71

    Tayforth Birding

    Glas Tulaichean - a day in the hills I took the day off work today, so that my wife and I could go hillwalking (we've given up waiting for decent weekend weather). After a promising forecast a few days ago, the weather was now looking a bit dodgy in Aberdeenshire, so we headed over to a...
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