My 100th species on my Lochwinnoch patch 2026 year list was a drake mandarin had hoped for something better!

Sedge warblers added to year list this morning and cuckoo a bird I don’t alway get every year on Saturday. #birdingscotland #clydebirdibg

Black-tailed godwits at sunrise on scrape at Lochwinnoch RSPB reserve at sunrise this morning @rspbscotland.bsky.social

#Digiscoped with kowa884 using iphone16Pro with vario adapter #birdingscotland #clydebirding

Rather fine adult Mediterranean Gull on my Lochwinnoch patch yesterday evening. Digiscoped with kowa884 using iphone16Pro and vario adapter. #birdingscotland #clydebirding

Greenshank on the scrape at Lochwinnoch (first thing, flying high north at 7:04am) takes my patch year list to 91 after a good week with gadwall, Slavonian grebe, swallow and House Martin all added to the year list. #clydebirding

Digiscoped with kowa884 using iphone16Pro and vario adapter

Bit of patch gold this evening with a summer plumage Slavonian Grebe on Castle Semple often distant. #digiscopes with kowa884 using iphone16Pro and vario adapter

Also Osprey over Barr loch, 48 whooper swans and the hybrid shoveler x BW teal. #birdingscotland #clydebirding

A rather impressive looking hybrid (shoveler x blue winged teal) at Lochwinnoch today. #digiscoped with kowa884 using iphone16Pro and vario adapter

Swallow at Castle Semple Loch this evening bring my patch year list to 87 #birdingscotland #clydebirding

Birded my Lochwinnoch patch this morning, windy and wet most of the time. Very much the usual suspects and patch year list remaining 80.

Birds seen include GWE, 3 scaup, 3 pochard, 3 jays and 15 fieldfare. #birdingscotland

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Birded my Lochwinnoch patch first thing LT duck, 3 scaup & GWE highlights.

Spent an hour birding Newshot island, American wigeon still present mostly sleeping during heavy rain

#digiscoped with kowa884 using iphone16Pro and vario adapter
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Not sure but it looks like they are getting on well with the timber fence. You can still get to channel hide and access the Aird meadow trail via temp routes. Reserve staff should be able to give you more information

After a few days in birding in Suffolk and Yorkshire it’s back to the reality of birding my Lochwinnoch patch. GWE showed well. Highlights was a redshank a patch year tick my 80th

Managed to get a couple of hours of birding while back in Yorkshire. Red-necked Grebe showed well at Hornsea Mere. #Digiscoped with Kowa884 using iphone16Pro and vario adapter.

Days birding started with Hume’s Warbler at Lowestoft, mostly high up in pine but got good but brief views in hedge, nice, over 20 since my last. Did bit of birding around Horsey before heading to to Hull see family in with 3 mile detour to way to see GGShirke.

Cracking full days birding along the Suffolk coast. Lots of good birds seen today include the Zitting Cisticola, 4 shorelarks, woodlarks, dartford warblers, spotted redshank, bittern, bearded tits etc. also my first adder and butterfly of the year. Walked miles mostly on shingle beaches

Opened the curtains this morning to see my first pipistrelle bat bus feeding just outside my window

Birded the Blackstoun Farm rhubarb fields this morning 2 brambling among 280+ chaffinch.

Then visited the reservoirs at Dams to Darnley, L. Egret on Balgray, at Littleton a stunning Drake scaup and 2 pochard

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Great White Egret in the rain at Barr Loch, Lochwinnoch today. #digiscoped with kowa884 using iphone16Pro and vario adapter #birdingscotland

Rainy, dull, cold days birding. Got soaked birding my Lochwinnoch patch only thing of note GWE. Visited Newshot Island America wigeon, Lt duck and 2 scaup still present #birdingscotand #clydebirding

LT ducks wintering on kilbirnie loch did the descent thing and came over to Barr Loch a patch year tick. Great white egret, 3 scaup plus all the usual stuff #birdingscotland #clydebirsing

A cold, windy and often very wet morning birding Ardmore, Craigendoran and Cardross. Highlights including a total of 9 Slavonian grebe, c80 GCGs, single RT Diver, 20+ pintail and single L Egret #birdingscotland #clydebirding

Birding my Lochwinnoch patch is starting to feel like Groundhog Day with the same stuff for past month - GWE and 3 scaup on Barr Loch the highlights

Peregrine in Greenock, #digiscoped with kowa884 using iPhone16Pro using vario adapter in breezy conditions

I suspect so, bit earlier than previous years

Quick lunchtime visit to Frankfield Loch, Glasgow to see the Red-necked Grebe. Very poor light, with light rain, bitterly cold and windy but bird showed well. #birdingscotland #clydebirding

Digiscoped with kowa884 using iphone16Pro and vario adapter

Single Russian white-fronted goose off Candren Road, Linwood today with Pink feet. Digiscoped with kowa884 using iphone16Pro and vario adapter #birdingscotland #clydebirding

Caught up with Ring-necked Duck, Queens Park, Glasgow earlier today.

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Spent the morning birding my Lochwinnoch patch. Highlights including Great White Egret and pair of Scaup. Digiscoped with kowa884 using iphone16Pro and vario adapter #birdingscotland #clydebirding

A great days birding started with Black Grouse lek at first light, before birding north side of the Clyde, LT duck and Barnacle Goose added to year list. Digiscoped at distance and heavily cropped.

Northern Lights over Castle Semple #lochwinnoch this evening photographed with iphone16pro #northernlights

First dip of the year - missed the RB gull at Strathclyde Park late afternoon. Couple of Mediterranean Gulls (ad & 2nd winter) in the roost #birdingscotland #clydebirding

Working most of the day but managed get finished just in time to check Strathclyde Loch on my way home. 2nd calendar Mediterranean Gull was highlight. I actually like this shot of med gull here with 3 BHs