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  1. Stuart Watson

    Help Starlings Gretna

    Can anyone please help me with info regarding the Starling flock at Gretna. I want to visit this weekend but I am unsure of the precise location and of the best time at which to see them coming in to roost. I don`t even know if they are still gathering or have moved elsewhwere.
  2. Stuart Watson

    Geese? Irvine

    Can anyone help regarding 4 geese which i saw on Friday at Irvine harbour? One was completely white and has a stocky red or deep orange bill and legs. One appeared to be a standard White Fronted, but couldn`t see any black lines on underbelly. One was what can only be described as a 50/50 of...
  3. Stuart Watson

    Hidden hide and 6 lifers

    A casual lunchbreak at Musselburgh on the 5th of this month and I finally stumbled across a path leading to the hides (covered every other path there loads of times). Anyway - i started jotting down notes of all the waders i was unfamiliar with and prepared to head back for work when a chance...
  4. Stuart Watson

    Who am I? - ID help please!

    Sorry no photo - must invest in a digi. I am about the same size as a Redshank and have similar long bright orange legs. My bill is long, thin and pale orange with black tip. My underside is white - but speckled all over and my wings and back are silvery-grey. My partner who is sitting resting...
  5. Stuart Watson

    Bar or Black??

    WAHEY - got another lifer today (godwit), only problem is - couldn`t ID properly. There were six of them feeding alongside a slightly bigger oystercatcher at Musselburgh estuary- with a pair of curlew just beyond Anyone any ideas which species they are likely to have been?
  6. Stuart Watson

    [B]What categories of birders are there?

    What categories of birders are there? I`ve often been referred to by friends as a twitcher - but in all honesty i ain`t gonna be classed in that group at least until i retire. I do have a keen interest in birds, but have often wondered - what `group` of birders would i fall into? Casual...
  7. Stuart Watson

    Escaped or released?

    Has anyone seen a bird escaped or released living happily wild and free? I`ve seen a few strange ones myself, but the oddest i heard of was a few years back - a pair of Flamingo sitting on top of a Glasgow tenement block. Inflatable dummies the viewer thought at first until they began preening...
  8. Stuart Watson

    Looking for Puffin

    On a visit to the scottish east coast i was delighted to witness first hand the breathtaking cliffs and seabird colonies of Crawton. However i dipped out on spotting a Puffin. There are usually a couple of hundred around according to the info. board at the start of the clifftop, but none were to...
  9. Stuart Watson

    Have you got a favourite bird `family` that you like to watch?

    Probably because they seem quite intelligent and are easily viewed i enjoy watching crows the most, but i also enjoy watching Finches and Thrushes- the latter are almost like mini crows in some respects i think. Least like to watch gulls (except when squabbling with crows) - does anyone notice...
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