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Nothing new today - but I got better shots of Lesser Scaup and Ring-necked Duck at New Cumnock by circumnavigating the loch. The ducks...

A trek up north again on 15th February, this time to Coatbridge near Glasgow (Drumpellier Country Park), brought me closer to yet another...

I've got plenty of nice images of American Wigeon on file - I happen to have got lucky with this species on two or three occasions...

Quite remarkably, January turned up trumps with not one but two mega ducks of the same species, at least one of which might prove to be...

Red-flanked Bluetail used to be a bird of legendary status. It seems wrong somehow that a relatively recent increase in national records...

I arrived at Auchincross Loch, New Cumnock, with little hope: the rain hadn't let up (like it said it would) and I wasn't even sure I was...

Longtown pond has been good for rare or uncommon ducks in the past and the report of Ring-necked Duck came as no surprise. But there was...

No White-winged Scoter at Musselburgh today but the local river was busy with unusually confiding displaying Goldeneye and Goosander,...

Again, nothing special here but Redshank, Golden Plover, Lapwing and Little Egret posed beautifully in the evening light at Anthorn today.

I dropped in at Strathclyde County Park for the Ring-billed Gull on my way north, but it failed to show. (It was seen later in the day,...