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December 2025 Sightings
Date Count Species Location 1st 1 Jack Snipe Cocklemill Burn 1st 2 Little Egrets Cocklemill Burn 1st 54 Twite Cocklemill Burn 1st 1 Water Pipit Cocklemill Burn 1st 1 Chiffchaff Pittencrieff Park 2nd 1 Black-necked Grebe Burntisland 2nd 1 Slavonian Grebe Burntisland 2nd 2 Crossbills Cocklemill Burn 2nd 1 Little Egret Cocklemill Burn 2nd 1 Merlin Cocklemill Burn 2nd 1
November 2025 Sightings
Date Count Species Location 1st 1 Glossy Ibis Angle Park GP 1st 1 Great White Egret Angle Park GP 1st 1 Black Tern Fife Ness 1st 1 Great Skua Fife Ness 1st 1 Greenshank Fife Ness 1st 75 Little Gulls Fife Ness 1st 1 Short-eared Owl Kingsbarns 1st 1 Marsh Harrier (adult female) Mugdrum Island 1st 1 American Golden Plover
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April 2022 Sightings
Garganey were still showing at St Andrews and Cameron Reservoir on the 1st with the pair and the drake respectively. 35 Golden Plover were counted on East Lomond, a Greenshank was on the Stinky Pool
March 2022 Sightings
March began as February had ended with the Green-winged Teal and two Greenshanks still showing at The Wilderness and the potential first accepted record for Fife of Ross’s Goose seen in that vicinity before returning
February 2022 Sightings
Kinshaldy proved a popular place early in the month, with c20 Snow Buntings in the dunes, five Crossbills around the car park and 19 Stock Doves in fields N of the entrance road (1st), six
January 2022 Sightings
Seen from Kinghorn (1st) were 62 Eiders E, 20W, four Common Scoters E, one Red-breasted Merganser W, two Little Gulls W and four Red-throated Divers W, two drake Pintail were in Torry Bay, a 3rd
December Sightings 2021
A male Merlin was seen at Plains Farm, Dunshalt (3rd), 16 Long-tailed Ducks, six Red-throated Divers, one Slavonian Grebe, one Great Crested Grebe and one Guillemot were off Out Head and seen passing Fife Ness