Want to brush up on the differences between Rock Pipit and Water Pipit? This handy cut-out-and-keep poster by Dave Grant from Ayrshire Birding will be a great help

Handy one-page guide for identifying this subspecies of Chiffchaff from an article by Dave Grant in Ayrshire Birding  

This article details the unusual nesting behaviour in the holes and crevices of crumbling mortar at Bothwell Castle in South Lanarkshire of Sand Martin Riparia riparia in 2018. Read Jimmy Maxwell's account  here.

In Spring 2005,  Christopher McInerny was searching Kelvingrove Park for migrant passerines when he came across a largish finch-like bird sitting on the top-most twigs of a tall, leafless tree. It was a Hawfinch. His description of the bird and previous records of Hawfinch in Clyde are detailed in this report from Clyde Birds