April 5th Ruddons Pt, Fife

The female King Eider still here, pretty much in the same area just to the SW of the tip of the point where I saw it in March.
I was hoping for a bit more of a spring build up of grebes and divers but these fairly sparse with a few RT Diver, a distant GN Diver and 8 Slav Grebe. It was great to see most of the Slavs in full summer plumage-lovely birds. Other seaduck inlcuded at least 30 Long-tailed Duck, 260 Common Scoter and Velvets widely spread but not counted.
A nice White Wagtail feeding on the beach was my first proper spring migrant (Although a singing Chiffchaff in Scrub by the Drainage Pond outside the house at Dunfermline in the week was almost certainly a fresh arrival).

Other signs of spring migration confirmed we are still very much in the early stages this far North with a trickle of Mipits and some goose movement, most notably a Pale-bellied Brent doing a few circuits of Largo Bay and briefly landing on the beach and 280 Pinkies flew North.

Brents are fairly uncommon in Fife away from the Eden Estuary where a small number of Pale-bellied can usually be found.in the Winter; this passage bird was also a Pale-bellied as is typical for Fife. Dark-bellied race birds are rare here.

Dawn Loch Leven