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Birding/ring reading in Glasgow and beyond
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g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · 25d
Dutch-ringed Sandwich Tern r-H97 at Meikle Craigs, Troon today. Ringed on Slijkplaat, Haringvliet in May 2024, and seen on the Platier d'Oye reserve, northern France in July 2024. #ringreading
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g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · Sep 6
A second ringed Kittiwake at Troon harbour last weekend, this one ringed on Inchkeith as an adult in 2009. Likely to have crossed overland from the Forth to the Clyde on its way to winter in the north Atlantic #ringreading
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g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · Sep 6
Kittiwake b-XCZ at Troon harbour last weekend. Ringed on Colonsay as an adult in June 2021 and last seen there in 2022 #ringreading
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g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · Aug 31
Where was it from out of interest?
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g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · Aug 31
Maybe a Dutch bird? The scheme at reference 2269B on the International Wader Study Group's projects register spreadsheet seems to fit - click the link to it from here www.waderstudygroup.org/projects/col...
International Wader Study Group | » The Register
www.waderstudygroup.org
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g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · Aug 30
Icelandic-ringed Oystercatcher at Barassie, Troon this morning. Ringed in Önundarfjörður in the West Fjords in 2014, this is my first sighting of this one since 2020 at the same location #ringreading
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g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · Aug 30
German-ringed Med Gull at Meikle Craigs, Troon this morning. Ringed in Leipzig in June 2022, my first sighting of it since 2023. A bird that also turns up at West Wemyss. One of 41 Meds present, but the only colour ringed bird #ringreading
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g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · Aug 19
Sandwich Tern r-N57 at Meikle Craigs, Troon last week. Ringed in Senegal in March 2023, sightings since then in the Netherlands, northern France and the Bann estuary #birdingscotland
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g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · Aug 13
A nudge to ringers to reply to ring-readers would be welcome too - I've still to hear back on a ringed Sandwich Tern I reported two years ago!
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g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · Aug 6
I also got a few rings read including this Greylag at Blönduós, which has been seen in Orkney since being ringed in #iceland in 2024.
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g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · Aug 6
Blue Fulmar at Sandgerði #iceland Always wanted to see one of these, fortunately there was one among the hundreds and hundreds of Fulmars present.
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g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · Aug 6
Harlequin with ducklings on the Laxá near Mývatn #iceland
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g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · Aug 6
Redpoll #iceland - first time seeing these dark Icelandic birds.
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g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · Aug 6
Another Red-necked Phalarope, this one on Bakkatjörn, Seltjarnarnes #iceland
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g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · Aug 6
Great Northern Diver, Stakhólstjörn, Mývatn #iceland
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g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · Aug 6
Humpback whale in Skjálfandi bay #iceland
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g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · Aug 6
Whimbrel and Ptarmigans around Akureyri #iceland
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g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · Aug 6
Brünnich’s Guillemots above the Arctic Circle on Grímsey #iceland
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g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · Aug 6
Red-throated Diver at Siglufjörður, #iceland
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g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · Aug 6
Red-necked Phalaropes (two of at least 40) on Grímsey, #iceland incredibly tame.
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g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · Aug 6
A few from a trip to #Iceland, adult and juvenile Snow Buntings on Grímsey.
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g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · Jun 5
One of those would be a good find here! @kanebrides.bsky.social - I got a second Windermere bird at SCP this week (you may already have seen).
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g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · Jun 4
Interesting possibility. I've only had one other Windermere bird here. The GPS tags project sounds very interesting. Several "new" Slimbridge birds here too. I'll send you details at the end of the season.
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g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · Jun 4
Slimbridge Greylags currently starting to appear at Strathclyde Loch and Hogganfield for their annual moult migration, among them, unusually, this one ringed at Windermere
@kanebrides.bsky.social #clydebirding
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g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · Jun 1
Decent numbers of Common Gulls hatched with a number of adults still on nests at a site in South Lanarkshire yesterday #clydebirding
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