Green Sandpiper 2022 (1 Viewer)

[Green Sandpiper]

I'm going to try something a bit different this year and make a note of the miles driven on my birding trips. Anything without a note means the trip was via public transport or local/ on foot.


01/01/2022

Home (Uddingston, South Lanarkshire)

1. Coal tit
2. Woodpigeon
3. Jackdaw
4. Carrion Crow

02/01/2022

Caerlaverock WWT

5. Chaffinch
6. House Sparrow
7. Great Tit
8. Blue tit
9. Blackbird
10. Tree Sparrow
11. Wren
12. Barnacle Goose
13. Shoveler
14. Shelduck
15. Whooper Swan
16. Mute Swan
17. Canada Goose
18. Moorhen
19. Wigeon
20. Goosander
21. Tufted Duck
22. Mallard
23. Teal
24. Bullfinch
25. Dunnock
26. Collared Dove
(150 miles)

04/01/2022

Clyde Walkway, Uddingston

27. Rook
28. Cormorant
29. Pied Wagtail
30. Goldfinch
31. Siskin
32. Treecreeper
33. Redwing
34. Magpie
35. Starling

 

[Green Sandpiper]

05/01/2022

Baron's Haugh RSPB

36. Song Thrush
37. Nuthatch
38. Long- tailed Tit
39. Grey Heron
40. Black- headed Gull
41. Little Grebe
42. Buzzard
43. Gadwall
44. Reed Bunting
45. Goldcrest

06/01/2022

Musselburgh

46. Goldeneye
47. Redshank
48. Great- black backed Gull
49. Herring Gull
50. Oystercatcher
51. Curlew
52. Bar- tailed Godwit
53. Stock Dove
54. Kestrel
55. Shag
56. Meadow Pipit
57. Red- Breasted Merganser
58. Eider
59. Pheasant
60. Turnstone

07/01/2022

Hogganfield Loch, Glasgow

61. Coot
62. Lesser Black- backed Gull
63. Fieldfare
(12 miles)

Strathclyde Park, Motherwell

64. Common Gull
65. Greylag Goose
(8 miles)

 

[KC Foggin]

You seem to have saved a bit of gas using so far this year. Good for you

 

[Green Sandpiper]

You seem to have saved a bit of gas using so far this year. Good for you

cheers!! Caerlaverock was the biggy, but I'm lucky that I live in the Central belt of Scotland so have good(ish) transport links to the East Coast (for Musselburgh)

 

[KC Foggin]

cheers!! Caerlaverock was the biggy, but I'm lucky that I live in the Central belt of Scotland so have good(ish) transport links to the East Coast (for Musselburgh)

Good for you!

 

[Green Sandpiper]

23/01/2022

Victoria Park, Glasgow

66. Ring- necked Duck
67. Mistle Thrush
(5 miles)

 

[Green Sandpiper]

26/01/2022

Southannan Sands, Fairlie

68. Greenshank

Burn Gill, nr Hunterston Power Station

69. Great Spotted Woodpecker

Power station road, Hunterston

70. Greenfinch

(zero miles)

 

[Green Sandpiper]

11/02/2022

Hogganfield Loch, Glasgow

71. Pochard
72. Smew

Bishop's Loch

73. Lapwing

Woodend Loch, Drumpellier

74. Great- Crested Grebe

(16 miles)

 

[Green Sandpiper]

27/02/2022

Musselburgh

75. Long- tailed Duck
76. Skylark
77. Dunlin
78. Grey Plover
79. Stonechat

(zero miles)

 

[Green Sandpiper]

05/03/2022

Fin Me Oot (Caldervale) South Lanarkshire

80. Dipper
81. Grey Wagtail

 

[Green Sandpiper]

13/03/2022

Baron's Haugh RSPB

82. Chiffchaff
83. Peregrine

Porter's Well, Uddingston

84. Pink- footed goose

 

[Green Sandpiper]

16/03/2022

Torness Power Station, E. Lothian

85. Sanderling
86. Gannet
87. Yellowhammer
88. Ringed Plover

Dunbar Harbour

89. Kittiwake
90. Fulmar

East Beach, Dunbar

91. Rock Pipit

Aberlady Bay NNR

92. Little Egret

(150 miles)

 

[Green Sandpiper]

22/03/2022

Fin Me Oot (Caldervale, South Lanarkshire)

93. Jay

Redlees Quarry Urban Fringe Park (soon to be LNR)

94. Raven

 

[Green Sandpiper]

23/03/2022

Clyde Estuary between Cardross and Ardmore Point

95. Sparrowhawk.
96. Robin*

(*saw it in January, but would have to update numbers 36 to 95.)

 

[Green Sandpiper]

10/04/2022

Clyde Walkway, Uddingston

97. Blackcap

12/04/2022

Musselburgh scrapes

98. Sand Martin

13/04/2022

Clyde Walkway, Uddingston

99. Common Sandpiper
100. Willow Warbler

14/04/2022

Sma' Glen

101. Red Grouse
102. Wheatear
103. Red kite
(120 miles)

 

[Green Sandpiper]

17/04/2022

Cathkin Marsh SWT Reserve

104. Linnet
105. Grasshopper Warbler
106. Sedge Warbler
(11 miles)

 

[Green Sandpiper]

24/04/2022

RSPB Loch Lomond

107. Tree Pipit

Ardmore Point

108. Sandwich Tern

(81 miles)

 

[Green Sandpiper]

27/04/2022

Yellowcraigs (Fidra) East Lothian

109. Guillemot
110. Puffin

Musselburgh (scrapes)

111. Little Ringed Plover

(120 miles)

 

[Green Sandpiper]

05/05/2022

Uddingston/ Clyde Walkway

112. Swallow

 

[Green Sandpiper]

08/05/2022

Fin Me Oot

113. Whitethroat