Davie Abraham describes the excitement of finding a breeding-plumaged Spotted Sandpiper at his local patch.  A rare vagrant from America, this was only the second record for the Clyde. His article can be read here.

This Initiative has the aim of maintaining and increasing populations of breeding waders through targeting funding and advice to landowners to encourage them to undertake ‘wader friendly’ farming practices, which are informed by the latest research into wader ecology.  This article from The Glasgow Naturalist is authored by Toby ​Wilson and Dan Brown