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May 2026 Sightings
Date Count Species Location 1st 1 Mandarin Duck Beveridge Park 1st 1 House Martin Cairneyhill 1st 1 Swift Cairneyhill 1st 1 Garden Warbler Cameron Reservoir 1st 1 Sedge Warbler Cameron Reservoir 1st 1 Whitethroat Cameron Reservoir 1st 4 Whimbrel Cocklemill Burn 1st 2 Manx Shearwaters East Wemyss 1st 17 Red-throated Divers East Wemyss 1st 2 Slavonian Grebes East Wemyss 2nd
April 2026 Sightings
Date Count Species Location 1st 1 Wheatear Coble Shore 1st 3 Slavonian Grebes Coble Shore 1st 1 Caspian Gull (adult) Tayport 1st 1 Wheatear Boarhills 2nd 1 Goshawk St Andrews 2nd 2 White-billed Divers Inverkeithing/Port Laing 2nd 1 Stejneger’s Scoter (imm drake) East Wemyss 2nd 1 Black Redstart Pitcairn, Glenrothes 3rd 2 White-billed Divers Inverkeithing 4th c40 Whooper Swans Seafield
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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