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Monthly Sightings Summaries
September 2026 Sightings
Date Count Species Location 1st 1 Little Ringed Plover Cameron Reservoir 1st 1 Red-throated Diver Fife Ness 1st 2 Little Gulls Out Head 1st 1 Osprey Out Head 1st 47 Red-throated Divers Out Head 1st 6 Ruff The Wilderness 2nd 2 Green Sandpipers Angle Park GP 2nd 1 Little Stint (juvenile) Balcomie Beach 2nd 1 Lesser Whitethroat Clatto Reservoir 2nd
August 2026 Sightings
Date Count Species Location 1st 3 Black-tailed Godwits Angle Park GP 1st 1 Mediterranean Gull (adult) Anstruther 1st 3 Quail Kilmany 1st 2 Quail Kingsbarns 1st 1 Quail Pittenweem 1st 150 Arctic Terns Pettycur Bay 1st 1 Grasshopper Warbler St Andrews 2nd 1 Mediterranean Gull (juvenile) Balcomie Beach 2nd 1 Grasshopper Warbler Cameron Reservoir 2nd 1 Peregrine Cameron Reservoir 2nd
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Information & Updates from FBC
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





