Last week,
A surprise was a calling Brambling at a site I visit for work in N Ayrshire. The habitat was potentially suitable for breeding, a mixed deciduous/ conifer woodland. The bird flew over calling (chup chup flight call) then gave further calls (typical wheezy alarm call given from migrants) when it appeared to be perched out of sight in the tree tops. After a while it stopped calling and I had to leave. May have just been a late migrant/ wandering individual but certainly the first time I have had this species in the breeding season proper. I've come across Brambling in small flocks in early spring (March/April) in potentially suitable breeding habitat in Perth and Kinross including males in song but these birds typically disappear as the spring progresses and are presumably Scandinavian migrants stopping off on passage.

Today..
The Reed Warbler is still singing by the pond in Duloch Park, Dunfermline.