Today..

June is one of those months that should never be written off for birding, conventional migration is done but it's a  month that  often throws up some surprises. You need a bit of faith and that's how it was this morning as I scanned a largely empty sky from the patch at Ferryhills. I'd just been following a flock of Greylag Geese (desperate times) when my bins locked on a large white bird which proved to be a 1st summer Spoonbill making it's way west over the Forth Rail Bridge. A Scottish first and patch first for me and a pretty rare local bird, not quite annual in Fife.
It was too far for a photo so I concentrated on watching it through the scope.
Also 4 Crossbill over.
No sign of the Reed Warbler in Duloch Park.

Lot's of Ringlet on the wing at Ferryhills now.

Sand Martins were showing well at Letham yesterday flying low into a blustery south-west wind.

Tree Pipit on territory in Dumfries and Galloway last week.