Sunday, 23 June 2013

June 23rd.
Letham, Fife.

Really felt this site would eventually turn up a Temminck's Stint as the habitat looks great for one. The spring passage didn't deliver but today I found a summer adult which would presumably be a bird on return passage      
south at this late stage in June.
Also one LRP. The area is looking in top condition at the moment and alive with birds; breeding BH Gulls, waders and plenty of wildfowl. It's just goes to show what leaving a couple of flooded fields alone can do.

Rossie Bog, Fife
My first Scottish  Marsh Harrier of the year, a female. Always nice to see up here; apart from a small breeding population at one location, this is an irregularly encountered species.

Marginally better than my pic of the Little Stint earlier in June, but still shockingly bad. The brown blob between the Ringed Plover and the BH Gull is a Temmincks. It looked alot better through my swaro on zoom.

2 comments:

  1. Nice find, and very welcome on a lot of Fife lists!

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  2. Thanks Ali. Looking forward to the autumn there. Although I will have to try and split my time between there and Carlingnose of course!

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