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Notable Sightings - December 2022
Waders at high tide, Ardmore Point © John Chapman
 

​Notable sightings in December 2022
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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
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  • 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

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​Snow Goose, Drymen   (© Ian Fulton)


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​Snow Goose, Drymen   (© John Sweeney)


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Green-winged Teal, RSPB Baron’s Haugh  (© Andrew Russell)


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Smew, Hogganfield Loch  (© Ian Fulton)


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Smew, Hogganfield Loch  (© Lang Stewart)


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Siberian Chiffchaff, Allander Walkway, Milngavie  (© John Hutton)


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Jack Snipe, Motherwell   © Davie Abrahams


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Water  Rail, RSPB Baron’s Haugh  (© Frank Gibbons)

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Water  Rail, RSPB Baron’s Haugh  (© Lang Stewart)


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Little Egret, RSPB Baron’s Haugh  (© Frank Gibbons)


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Brambling, Muirshiel CP  (© Ken Ramsay)

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Crossbill, Muirshiel CP (© Ken Ramsay)

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Crossbill, Edenmill (© John Hutton)

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Mandarin Duck, Balloch (© Ian Fulton)

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Lesser Redpoll, Cathkin Marsh
(© John Agnew)

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Mediterranean Gull, Victoria Park 
​(© Paul Baker)

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​Waxwings, Rutherglen  (© Tam Stewart)

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Waxwing, Houston (© Allan Kelly)

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Kingfisher, Heritage Loch   (© Lang Stewart)

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(© John Agnew)

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​(© Lang Stewart)

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