Wen May 31st
Lesser Whitethroat singing from the S.U.D's pond right outside our house in Dunfermline-audible as I lay in bed. Excellent showing of this uncommon visitor to Fife this spring, my own personal tally is up to five now.

Saturday
Met up with my old mate Jon Daisley for some birding around in Fife in the afternoon.  Once again no luck with any scarce  migrants at Kilminning but afterwards we stopped off near Crail to look for the Yellow Wagtails holding territory and picked up the male with a bill full of food flying into a presumed nest site in the middle of a wheat crop, a rare breeding record for Fife.

We also stopped at Letham where a Water Rail showed in the open and the three Redshank chicks were still going strong.

Sunday
Although I now have a productive local patch just a 10 min drive from home in Ferryhills, it's fair to say I still neglect my own doorstep so I decided to start rectifying that today. The SUD's ponds outside our house have became an oasis for birds as the vegetation surrounding them matures and I decided to get up early to do a breeding bird survey of this and other similar ponds in the neighbourhood with an aim to make this an annual survey.
One thing I didn't expect was to end up with a Scottish tick from this survey-singing Reed Warbler at Duloch Park!

The pond in the park is a good size and has a decent size reed bed too so it did cross my mind that this could be the place to find a Reed Warbler but this species is far from common in Fife with most records involving drift migrants on the East Neuk. Crazy to think I have seen Yellow-browed Warblers pretty much very year since I've been in Scotland but this is my first Reed Warbler.

Even for me this a bad photo-but it is the Reed Warbler.

Sedge Warblers showed better.