Great White Egret & Little Egret at Blackness today. Both birds were on the Lothian side before flying up the Forth. Also 4 Pale-bellied Brent Geese & good numbers of Black-tailed Godwits. #birdinglothian #birdingscotland @upperforthbirds.bsky.social
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11 OCTOBER 2026 Blairdrummond GPs: 1 drake ring-necked duck (coming out of eclipse) again, on main pit (DOE).
10 OCTOBER 2026 Stirling: 7 gannet over (FM). Blairdrummond GPs: 1 gannet but no sign of ring-necked duck (DOE). Gartmorn Dam: 1 female scaup (GG). Skinflats: 3 scaup on north pool; 2 grey plover on south pool; 1 guillemot on Forth (PC).
9 OCTOBER 2026 Blairdrummond GPs: 1 drake ring-necked duck, 1 female pochard, 4 whooper swan (DOE).
4 OCTOBER 2026 continued Kinneil: 1 grey plover, 1 scaup, 2 spotted redshank (DOE).
4 OCTOBER 2026 Tullibody Inch: 1 little stint, 1 grey plover, 1 common sandpiper, 2 marsh harrier, 5 common dolphin (JRC, DOE). Blairdrummond GPs: 5 whooper swan (LR). Blackness: 2 red-throated diver, 3 eider, 2 Sandwich tern (DOE). Skinflats: 2 scaup, 1 pochard, 3 shoveler, 50 pintail (DOE).
3 OCTOBER 2026 Skinflats: 2 Mediterranean gull (1 1cy, 1 2cy), 3 scaup, 1 shoveler, 1 marsh harrier (AB).
2 OCTOBER 2026 Blairdrummond GPs: 4 whooper swan (DOE).
1 OCTOBER 2026 Skinflats: 1 brambling over; 1 gannet and 2 scaup on north pool; 15 grey plover, 3 ruff, and 1 1w Mediterranean gull on south pool (JRC).
30 SEPTEMBER 2026 Kinneil to Bo’ness: 2 spotted redshank, 1 greenshank, 73 golden plover, 170 lapwing (RG). Blackness: 2 curlew sandpiper (DOE).
29 SEPTEMBER 2026 Tullibody Inch: 5200 pink-footed geese, 44 dunlin, 5 ringed plover (JRC). Blackdevon wetlands: 1 juv little gull, 1 ruff (JRC).
28 SEPTEMBER 2026 Powfoulis RSPB: 5 little egret, 2 greenshank (NM). Skinflats: 5 grey plover on south pool (NM).
27 SEPTEMBER 2026 Blairdrummond GPs: 4 whooper swan and 47 goosander (DOE). Blairdrummond: hen harrier along road to Gargunnuck (MM).
26 SEPTEMBER 2026 Kinneil: 2 spotted redshank (MM). Skinflats: 30 gannet and 1 guillemot offshore; 5 grey plover on foreshore; 1 grey plover and 1 ruff on south pool (PC, MM). Powfoulis RSPB: 7 little egret (MM).
Single Scaup at Kinneil- on river channel,by 1st lagoon outflow @upperforthbirds.bsky.social #BirdingScotland
2 Spotted Redshank at Kinneil Lagoon; feeding together, on bend in river Avon, near refinery/opposite solar farm #BirdingScotland
24 SEPTEMBER 2026 Bo’ness: 2 Arctic skua, 1 great skua, 1 gannet, 1 guillemot, 15 Sandwich tern (GG). Blackness: 1 Arctic skua, 1 shag, 1 guillemot, 3 gannet, 1 little egret (DOE). Kinneil: 1 spotted redshank, 5 gannet, 1 eider (DOE).
21 SEPTEMBER 2026 Blackness: 1 storm petrel west past (AF). Skinflats: 1 scaup and 3 greenshank at north pool (NM).
19 SEPTEMBER 2026 Dollar: 1 fieldfare at Vicar’s Bridge (LL).
8 PB Brents at Kinneil lagoon today. Flushed twice by Buzzard, then juv Pregrine. Last seen out on firth just east of lagoon. Also 4 Little Egret, leucistic Blackwit, Rock Pipit and a few Golden Plover along with regulars. @upperforthbirds.bsky.social
