Yesterday...

Vis mig on my patch at Ferryhills first thing was fairly slow with less Meadow Pipits moving North than last weekend. One thing that gave me a bit of encouragement was a group of 6 Red-throated Diver that came high from overland and then continued to the NE hinting at some overland passage from the W coast of Scotland. It is well known that autumn sees overland passage of seabirds along the Forth Valley but spring seems to be more of an unknown quantity.
Compared with autumn when you are looking for birds coming into the Forth from the N Sea, in spring you would need a good view looking inland as any birds are likely to be very high up (even in autumn skuas and divers are often already very high up when they arrive at the Forth Bridges area.)
Ferryhills is certainly in a good position to see this and perhaps in certain conditions later in the spring it's not impossible that you could get species such as Arctic Tern and even skuas making an overland crossing from the W coast of Scotland. I'll give it a go-the great thing about birding is there is always something to find out.

Later in the day a productive visit to Letham saw the Greenland White-fronted Goose still present and a fine Short-eared Owl. Perhaps the biggest surprise was finding presumably the same Jack Snipe asleep in almost exactly the same spot on the edge of the Island as last weekend!