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2004
Sightings
Latest
- 2008
June
15th
• Gailes
Marsh, Ayrshire: Emerald,
Azure, Blue-tailed,
Common Blue & Large Red Damselflies present. Also
Small Copper, Small Heath, and. Common Blue. Sand Martin
with 29 AONs.
• Dean
Castle Country Park, Ayrshire
• Dawn
Chorus Chronology
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Species
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Time
of first registration
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Song Thrush
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0259h
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Carrion
Crow
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0319h
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Robin
|
0323h
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Blackbird
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0327h
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Wren
|
0348h
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Goldcrest
|
0401h
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Dunnock
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0410h
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Chaffinch
|
0422h
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Weather
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partly
cloudy
no
wind
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June
14th
• Pinbain
Burn, Ayrshire: Grayling
(1), Northern Brown Argus (2), Wall (1), Large Skipper
(10), Common Blue (6), Small Heath (3), and Meadow Brown
(3). Rock Pipit carrying food to nest site in dry
stane dyke.
• North
Glen App, Ayrshire: Dark
Green Fritillary (17), Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary
(13), Large Heath (17), Wall (1), Large Skipper (2),
Small Heath (70+), Golden-ringed Dragonfly (9). Also
Peacock, Green-veined White, Common Blue, Meadow Brown,
Large Red Damselfly, Roe Deer, Tawny Owl, Jay, Crossbill
(4), Redpoll, Siskin, and Spotted Flycatcher.
June
6th-13th
• Kindrogan
Field Centre & environs, Perthshire: Red Grouse, Osprey,
Long-eared Owl,
Ring Ouzel, Redstart,
Pied Flycatcher, Wood Warbler, Goldeneye, Goosander, Woodcock, Dipper,
Tree Pipit, & Crossbill.
Dawn
Chorus Chronology Sunrise:
0425h Sunset: 2201h (11-jun)
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Species
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11th
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10th
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9th
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Robin
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0317h
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0303h
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0301h
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Song Thrush
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0321h
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0304h
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0255h
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Blackbird
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0325h
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0324h
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0319h
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Cuckoo
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0334h
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0330h
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0311h
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Wren
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0346h
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0345h
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0338h
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Goldcrest
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0337h
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0321h
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0348h
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Garden Warbler
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0344h
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-
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-
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Chaffinch
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0359h
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0401h
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0401h
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Blackcap
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-
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0400h
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0354h
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Weather
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overcast
light
wind
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partly
cloudy
light
wind
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blue
sky
no
wind
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May
24th
• Walthamstow
Reservoirs,
London: Black Terns on East Warwick.
•
London Wetland Centre: Avocet
(pr), Hobby & Broad-bodied Chaser.
May
18th
• Milton
Country Park, Cambrbridge: Hairy
Dragonfly (20+) & Wood Mouse.
May
12th
• Walthamstow
Reservoirs,
London:
Cuckoo
singing & 42 Common Terns on East Warwick at
dusk.
May
10-11th
• Docklands,
London:
Up
to 10 pairs of Common Tern breeding at East India Dock
Basin.
• Hendon,
London:
Swifts
returned to breeding sites on Sunningfields Road in
the last few days.
May
6th
• Cambridge,
Cambridgeshire:
Brimstone
and Holly Blue in the city centre. Field Vole colony
at the Zoology Department.
May
5th
• Old
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire:
Roof top nesting Oystercatchers and Orange
Tips around the university and Seaton Park.
April
27th
• Drumtee,
Ayrshire:
First
Green Hairstreak of the year.
• Corsehouse
Reservoir, Ayrshire:
Teal
(2 prs), Great Crested Grebe (pr), Little Grebe (pr),
Common Sandpiper (pr), Common Crossbill, Lesser Redpoll,
Siskin, Raven, & Buzzard.
April
14-19th
• Hornborgasjon,
Sweden:
Garganey,
Bittern, Red-necked
Grebe, Slavonian
Grebe, Black-necked
Grebe, White-tailed
Eagle, Marsh
Harrier, Goshawk, Osprey, Crane,
Crested Tit, & Common Redpoll
April
2nd-12th
• Costa
de la Luz, Spain:
Marsh Sandpiper,
Little Swift, North Bald Ibis (reintroduced), Roller,
Purple Swamphen, Audouin's Gull, Lesser Short-toed Lark,
Slender-billed Gull, Short-toed Eagle, Griffon Vulture,
Spectacled Warbler, & Caspian Tern.
March
17-19th
• Kensington
Gardens, London:
Mediterranean Gull in full breeding plumage.
• Photographs
here
February
24th
• Sunny
Hill Park, North London:
Pheasant (unusual locality).
February
17th
• Aberdeen
University:
Waxwing (24) at Queen Mother Library.
February
16th
• Donmouth
Nature Reserve, Aberdeenshire:
Goosander, Red-breasted Merganser, Shag, Sanderling, Dunlin, Turnstone,
& Redshank.
February
10th
• Walthamstow
Reservoirs, London:
Little Egret (1). Another in the River Lea Navigation channel at
Tottenham Hale station. Shelduck (17). Common Sandpiper
(2).
February
9th
• Round
Pond, Kensington Gardens, London:
Mediterranean Gull (ad) with
green leg ring AASZ from a capture at Elbe
Estuary in Germany in 2004.
January
17th
• Sunny
Hill Park, Hendon:
First Goldcrest song of the year heard.
January
12th
• Kensington
Gardens, London:
Peregrine over.
January
6th
• Kilmarnock
Water/Townholm, Ayrshire:
Dipper
January
5th
• Ayrshire
Winter Bird Race: 83
spp inc... Tree Sparrow, Lesser Redpoll, Yellowhammer,
Raven, Shoveler, Stock Dove, Goosander, Buzzard, Whooper Swan,
Gadwall, Turnstone, Greenshank, Rock Pipit, Pink-footed Goose,
Whooper Swan, Kittwake, Common Scoter & Purple Sandpiper.
January
4th
• Fenwick
Water/Bringan Ford, Ayrshire:
Dipper.
January
3rd
• Cardoness,
Dumfries & Galloway:
Cattle Egret still near Cardoness Castle, Gatehouse of Fleet.
• Photographs
here
• Caerlaverock,
Dumfries & Galloway:
Barnacle Geese.
January
2nd
• Knockentiber-Springside
Disused Railway Line, Ayrshire:
Kingfisher, Carmel Water.
• River
Irvine/Holmsford Bridge, Ayrshire:
Goosander (2 mm).
• Capringstone,
Ayrshire:
Kingfisher.
January
1st
• Cardoness,
Dumfries & Galloway:
Cattle Egret near Cardoness Castle, Gatehouse of Fleet.

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