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Monthly Sightings Summaries
December 2024 Sightings
Date Count Species Location 1st 1 American Wigeon (drake) Otterston Loch 1st 1 Lesser Scaup (female) Otterston Loch 2nd 1 Great White Egret Angle Park GP 2nd 7 Grey Partridges Cullaloe LNR 2nd 1 Hen Harrier (male W) Stenhouse Reservoir 2nd 2 Marsh Harriers (females) Mugdrum Island 2nd 2 Ravens Cullaloe LNR 2nd 1 Short-eared Owl Out Head 2nd 2
November 2024 Sightings
Date Count Species Location 1st 1 Bewick’s Swan (possible immature) Dalgety Bay 1st 1 Bittern Letham Pools 1st 1 Great White Egret Angle Park GP 1st 1 Mediterranean Gull Seafield 1st 17 Purple Sandpipers Seafield 1st c50 Sanderlings Seafield 1st 1 Spotted Sandpiper Cameron Reservoir 2nd 10 Barnacle Geese Eden Estuary Centre 2nd c170 Goldeneye Newburgh 2nd 1 Great Northern
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Information & Updates from FBC
Mainland Fife List -October 2024 update
The mainland Fife Bird List has been updated and as of 19 October 2024 stood at 348 species (pending acceptance of some records by the relevant rarities committees). The full list can be viewed here.
FBC Annual Awards
Winners of the 2023 FBC annual awards were announced at the April 2024 Indoor Meeting: Rarest Bird Found in Mainland Fife – Jared Wilson, Stejneger’s Scoter, Lower Largo, April-May 2023. Photograph of the Year –
Focus On: Birds and the Law
Birds and the Law The following is a summary of a presentation provided to Fife Bird Club members in March 2024. Refer to the respective acts for full details. Behaviour around birds and nests Under

Focus On: Black Guillemot in Fife
Introduction Although there is suggestion that Black Guillemots bred on the Isle of May up until 1850, it has historically been scarce in mainland Fife, with its frequency declining as the 20th Century progressed (Smout,
Mainland Fife List -June 2023 update
The mainland Fife Bird List has been updated and as of 30 June 2023 stood at 342 species (pending acceptance of some records by the relevant rarities committees). The full list can be viewed here.