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  1. MJB

    Tayforth Birding

    I have to suggest that Spotted Flycatcher in early February is very early for this late migrant, given it usually arrives no earlier than May... Mind you, that would be a nice record if you can get images...! MJB
  2. MJB

    Tayforth Birding

    Is the 'old rhubarb field' the flattish field opposite Tarry Road which joins the Montrose Road? Many decades ago, that was where Lapwings would roost in winter... MJB
  3. MJB

    Tayforth Birding

    I know it well! I was there for three years in the late 1980s... Large mixed tern colony in the bomb dump (weapon storage); inside the high fence, if you stayed on the tarmac vehicle and footpaths, you could walk past breeding birds only a metre away without any alarm being raised, but if you...
  4. MJB

    Tayforth Birding

    A coup[le of decades ago, I had a passage of 250+ Little Gulls at this time of year at Arbroath, seen from the top of the ramp opposite the Cliffs Car Park. MJB
  5. MJB

    Tayforth Birding

    That song has been described since at least the 1930s as: "A perfect rendition of a starter motor failing to start a car...!" You'll be too young to remember that one! A more charitable version is "Like endless jingling of keys."🔑🗝️🔑🗝️🔑 MJB
  6. MJB

    Tayforth Birding

    Ah! That Hatton! MJB
  7. MJB

    Tayforth Birding

    I'm guessing close to the Lunan Water or farm reservoir or a nearby restored gravel pit. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, there used to be a path from the east end of Kirkden Street, Friockheim that crossed the Lunan Water into Kinnell then on the road before the Church, you turned right along...
  8. MJB

    Tayforth Birding

    Thon eagle hadnae been checkin' oot the Craigiebank Sheltert Hooses, like...?:devilish: MJB
  9. MJB

    Tayforth Birding

    Darell, I saw a map in a scientific paper recently about game-birds (can't remember the reference) that still indicated Capercailzie at Montrimment (as I used to pronounce it when my Dad used to walk there in the 1970s); are they still there?
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