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    Green Sandpiper 2025

    22/04/2025 Cathkin Marsh SWT 104. Sedge Warbler 105. Kestrel (5 miles)
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    Green Sandpiper 2025

    21/04/2025 Seaton Cliffs SWT, Arbroath 99. Rock Dove 100. Linnet 101. Fulmar St Cyrus National Nature Reserve 102. Grasshopper Warbler Balgavies Loch SWT, Angus 103. Osprey (140 miles total.)
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    What's in a name - What is the definition of "Birder"

    For me birder and birdwatcher are inter-changeable, depending on the audience, rather than being distinct. Twitcher & Togger are pretty accurate, though. Incidentally, I never used to use 'birder' as I thought it was a bit too American (see 'The Big Year' if you get the chance) but its grown...
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    Western Scotland birding

    Sedgies have been at Cathkin Marsh SWT for over a week, so thinking it shouldn't be long before they hit Lochwinnoch in numbers.
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    The Sun Shines.

    Pretty decent day out all told. Loved the carrion crow photo as well, always good to get the dark eye
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    Braes, Wood & Marsh

    My little & often approach this year has, I think, given me a new perspective. I’m now much more aware of things, things I see and hear, things I miss out on, things that are right, and things that are wrong. Being of a mind to squeeze some birding in whenever I can I’ve found myself frequenting...
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    Green Sandpiper 2025

    17/04/2025 Clyde Walkway, Uddingston 98. Ring- necked Parakeet
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    Byrds Watching

    To everything (turn, turn, turn) There is a season….. Yeah, ok, Pete Seeger wrote the song, but ‘Pete Seeger Watching’ would make a very different blog post. The Saturday after my agony/ ecstasy weekend I found myself covering familiar ground in Musselburgh. I still had a list of birds I felt...
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    Green Sandpiper 2025

    08/04/2025 Dunbar Harbour 95. Kittiwake Dunbar Golf Course 96. Gannet 97. Razorbill
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    Green Sandpiper 2025

    06/04/2025 Horse Field, Uddingston 93. Willow Warbler 94. Sand Martin
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    First Swallow,House Swallow & Sand Martin Of 2025

    Sand Martins today in Uddingston, bizarrely in the same field as 2 Fieldfare.
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    Green Sandpiper 2025

    02/04/2025 Old Mine Nature Park (Uddingston/ Bothwell) 92. Blackcap
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    The Ecstasy & The Agony

    Its that Birdtrack thing again….. It will surprise very few people to learn that during the week, when I’m ‘working’ I somehow spend a lot of time daydreaming about birds and birding. Having discovered the ‘explore data’ function on Birdtrack most of these daydreams have at least one foot in...
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    Birding with others

    I do most of my birding solo, nd enjoy it immensely, but some of the best birding experiences I've had have been with friends. Birding in a group of 5, never mind 10, would be my idea of a living hell.
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    Home & Away Part 2

    Dunbar, East Lothian. Tuesday 11th March I’ve noticed a strange phenomenon this year. By my reckoning, I’m getting out more than usual, taking regular days off mid- week specifically to go birding and making a point of making sure I get something at the weekend. But it seems harder work to...
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