Notable sightings in December 2022
North & South Lanarkshire
- Probable Yellow-legged Gull at Greengairs landfill
- 2 Green Sandpipers at RSPB Baron’s Haugh/Carbarns
- A Black-tailed Godwit and a Green-winged Teal at RSPB Baron’s Haugh
- A Little Egret at RSPB Baron’s Haugh
- The Ring-billed Gull returned to Strathclyde Loch
- 3 Waxwings in Rutherglen
- Before the freeze, an amazing show by Kingfishers at Heritage Loch
Glasgow City
- A Ring-necked Duck at Victoria Park Pond & Bingham’s Pond
- A Red-head Smew at Hogganfield Loch
- A Mediterranean Gull at Victoria Park Pond
Renfrewshire & Inverclyde
- A Red-head Smew at Balgray Reservoir
- A drake Smew, a Waxwing, a Green-winged Teal at RSPB Lochwinnoch
- A Bittern intermittently in flight at RSPB Lochwinnoch
- 3 Barnacle Geese, 2 Hen Harriers at the Barr Loch
- 10 Brambling at Muirshiel CP
- A Mediterranean Gull at Inchinnan
- 2 Greenland White-fronted Geese at Linwood
- A Waxwing in a Houston garden
- A Red-throated Diver and 2 Greenshanks at Erskine Harbour
- 3 Little Egrets at Longhaugh Point
- A Green Sandpiper at BAE Systems
- 18 Woodcock at Dargavel Burn Bishopton
- A Black-throated Diver deceased at Glanderston Dam, presumably bird flu
E & W Dunbartonshire/Loch Lomond
- A Siberian Chiffchaff by the Allander Walkway, Milngavie
- A Red-throated Diver and a Guillemot at Dalmuir WTP
- 2 Little Egrets at Milton Island
- 12 Slavonian Grebes between Cardross and Ardmore
- 4 Grey Plover at Ardmore Point
- A Little Egret at Cardross Bay and Ardmore Point
- A Red-head Smew at the Helensburgh Reservoir
- A Hen Harrier in Glen Fruin
- Mandarin Ducks (2m,1f) at Balloch
- A Snow Goose by Drymen
- A White-tailed Eagle in/around Net Bay
- 6 Crossbills at Garadhban Forest
- 183 Greenland White-fronted Geese at Meikle Finnery by Croftamie
Clyde Area Photographs from December 2022 and January 2023
Snow Goose, Drymen (© Ian Fulton)
Snow Goose, Drymen (© John Sweeney)
Green-winged Teal, RSPB Baron’s Haugh (© Andrew Russell)
Smew, Hogganfield Loch (© Ian Fulton)
Smew, Hogganfield Loch (© Lang Stewart)
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Siberian Chiffchaff, Allander Walkway, Milngavie (© John Hutton)
Jack Snipe, Motherwell © Davie Abrahams
Water Rail, RSPB Baron’s Haugh (© Frank Gibbons)
Water Rail, RSPB Baron’s Haugh (© Lang Stewart)
Little Egret, RSPB Baron’s Haugh (© Frank Gibbons)
Brambling, Muirshiel CP (© Ken Ramsay)
Crossbill, Muirshiel CP (© Ken Ramsay) |
Crossbill, Edenmill (© John Hutton) |
Mandarin Duck, Balloch (© Ian Fulton)
Lesser Redpoll, Cathkin Marsh
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Mediterranean Gull, Victoria Park
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Waxwings, Rutherglen (© Tam Stewart)
Waxwing, Houston (© Allan Kelly)
Kingfisher, Heritage Loch (© Lang Stewart)
(© John Agnew) |
(© Lang Stewart) |