Today I had the great pleasure in welcoming Magnus Magnusson to officially open the new Scottish Birdwatching Resource Centre at Aberlady. This magnificent...
Mark Holling
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Oct 1, 2005 7:09 pm
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Mark, Congratulations to everyone for a fine opening. You and Bill were very good while Magnus clearly had done a lot of work and produced a fascinating talk...
Frank Hamilton
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Oct 1, 2005 8:11 pm
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3.15 - 5pm. 4 bonxie 5 arctic skua 100+ gannet Plenty sandwich tern 20+ common tern 1 little tern (courtesy Merv G) 80+ kittiwake 13 barnacle geese 20+ r t...
Seawatching yesterday (Saturday 1st) from Musselburgh I saw a ring-tailed Hen Harrier fly in low off the sea having picked it up a long way out, it then...
almond pools this morning, 1 buzzard 1 sparrowhawk 2 little grebe 1 swallow 1 imm shelduck Ian Richardson Can you solve the mystery of 'The Kitty Caper'?...
Still showing well till 5pm at least at Seafield Pond Also today: Torness 1 Black Redstart on lower walkway at Skateraw end(2 there last weekend per Mark...
Mark Yes a great opening day at this superb new building. Now that its up and running one of our main objectives must be to gain new members something the...
Found by Mervin G. c.0900/0930. Seen 1000/1100 with 2 dunlin. Three all very 'active' - harried repeatedly by 4 Jackdaws. Single Greenshank and Lapwings also...
Dear all, A friend has phoned to say he’s received at work, a large egg collection complete in display cabinet of around 100 eggs. It was from someone he...
Gavin K. Paterson
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Oct 3, 2005 12:59 pm
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Hi Gavin We've been asked this before here at BirdGuides - I normally refer people to the brief page of advice on the RSPB website: ...
... Interesting observations. I can't recall seeing any raptors arriving, and indeed at Gosford Bay the vast majority of passerines tend to be out over the bay...
Hi Gavin I've forwarded your query to Bob McGowan, the Senior Curator, Birds, at the National Museum of Scotland in Chambers Street. He is always interested in...
Yesterday Christine found a notebook belonging to a keen birder, at Mussselburgh - by one of the sludge pools near the race track (one with a big wader roost)....
Raptor migration has been logged at Aberlady for many years, with Osprey and Marsh Harrier the most regularly involved species, with most records in spring...
Hound Point gets a few raptors in the Autumn - some would be classsed as migrants such as Honey Buzzard and Osprey, and I've seen a very few Goshawk over the...
Stuart Ward has seen Ospreys coming in from N. at Port Seton I have seen same going S. from Kinghorn while sea-watching. Andrew ... From: "Stephen Welch"...
Andrew Sandeman
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Oct 3, 2005 6:27 pm
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Ian this is a genuine post from you? (Haven't opened yet, because of possible virus warning). Andrew ... From: "Ian Thomson" <imt.aberlady@...> To:...
Andrew Sandeman
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Oct 3, 2005 6:38 pm
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ditto Isle of May - regular raptor and owl vis mig. Tom Dougall ... From: "Ian Thomson" <imt.aberlady@...> To: <lothianbirdnews@yahoogroups.com> Sent:...
Ian's message read: ================================================ Yesterday Christine found a notebook belonging to a keen birder, at Mussselburgh - by one...
Dear Lothian bird news people There have been a couple of emails on this group about a notebook being found. I had planned to circulate a note, but have only...
Mark Holling
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Oct 3, 2005 8:59 pm
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Cramond 21 Scaup S'knowes 8-8.30am 4 Little Gull 3 Bonxie 4 Arctic Skua all west -- ....Some days you're the pigeon and others you're the statue Brendan Doe ...
Hi everyone I will be spending the day possibly two days around Musselburgh/Aberlady area 29th/30th Oct with Dalena Mostert a South African birder who has come...
juv Sabine's Gull feeding off Gullane Point, with 30+ Kittiwakes then off beach to west @ 3pm 1 Manx Shearwater 9 Red-throated Diver 3 Red-necked Grebe mmf...
3.10 - 4.45pm. 3 bonxie west At least 5 arctic skua (one with an almost completely white head!) Plenty of gannet Plenty of auks At least 100 little gull 2...
1 ad Med Gull 34 Little Gulls east 18 Slavonian Grebe 1 Red-necked Grebe 1 Black-tailed Godwit Dave...
Dave Allan/Alison Gray
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Oct 4, 2005 5:08 pm
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No sign of Sabine's Gull at GP or off beach between 15:55-16:50 but at least 10 Manx Shearwater past (E) and feeding from surface with Kittiwakes. Also 2...
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