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March 2026 Sightings
Date Count Species Location 1st 1 Scoter (Stejneger’s/Velvet) Buckhaven 1st 2 Great Northern Divers Earlsferry 1st 1 Hen Harrier (male) Earlsferry 1st 1 Red-necked Grebe Earlsferry 1st 42 Twite Kingsbarns 1st 1 Chiffchaff Kirkcaldy 1st 3 Slavonian Grebes West Wemyss 2nd 2 White-billed Divers Carlingnose Point 2nd 1 White-billed Diver Inverkeithing 2nd 1 Hen Harrier (ringtail) Mugdrum Island 2nd 1
February 2026 Sightings
Date Count Species Location 1st 2 Merlins (males) Anstruther 1st 1 Hen Harrier (ringtail) Colinsburgh 1st 1 Merlin Colinsburgh 1st 2 Ravens Cameron Reservoir 1st 3 Slavonian Grebes Cameron Reservoir 1st 1 Scaup (drake) Guardbridge 1st 1 White-fronted Goose (European) Lochore Meadows CP 2nd 8 Greenshanks Angle Park GP 2nd 2 Slavonian Grebes Burntisland 2nd 1 Little Auk Fife Ness
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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