David Kelly

Celtic fan, likes rugby, natural history, books, music and is a birder.

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Reached 100 species for the Clerkington patch, but I didn’t notice! Species 100 was Great Black-backed Gull on the 8th of January.

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Two Little Auks east past Ferny Ness between 1pm and 2pm this afternoon. The first landed on the sea just beyond the surf zone.The second was 10 minutes later and flew straight by. @birdinglothian

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White-rumped Sandpiper on Whitesands Beach this afternoon.⁦@birdinglothian⁩

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2 Jack Snipe flew from the Lennoxlove side of the Tyne and over my head towards Haddington this morning. Species 99 for the patch. Little Egret on the river too. @birdinglothian @EdinburghNats

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Ruff and Black-tailed Godwit on the Scrapes at Musselburgh this afternoon. @birdinglothian

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Southern Hawker, female, Clerkington, East Lothian, hawking along the River Tyne this morning. @EdinburghNats t

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Red-backed Shrike still this afternoon at JMCP. ⁦@birdinglothian⁩

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My first ever view of the Aurora Borealis from Haddington tonight. But where’s STEVE? #northernlights

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@denmor77 @birdinglothian I knew there had been a record in the past, so while waiting for an appointment looked up Scottish Birds Online. A great resource!

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Drake Surf Scoter still off Ferny Ness with Velvets to the northeast, left of the tanker, still quite distant. @birdinglothian

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One of two or three Curlew Sandpipers at the north end of Spike Island saltmarsh, John Muir CP, this afternoon. Also 18 Greenshanks and a Peregrine Falcon. @birdinglothian

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Some images of the very cooperative Steppe Great Grey Shrike at Winterfield Park, Dunbar this afternoon. It got so close I couldn’t phonescope it at times! @birdinglothian

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The Greenish Warbler was still commuting between a willow and a sycamore at the seaward end of the Dryburn at Skateraw this afternoon. It gave fleeting views and a few calls. @birdinglothian

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Great White Egret and two Little Egrets in Peffer Burn from Aberlady Green. ⁦@birdinglothian⁩ ⁦@EdinburghNats⁩

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Is this a Common Darter? Taken at John Muir Country Park near Dunbar, East Lothian. @EdinburghNats

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Short watch from Yellowcraig beach this pm. I thought a big dark skua chasing Kittiwakes was a juv Pom until I saw the spoons, so dark adult Pom then. Also a pale ad Arctic too. @birdinglothian

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Stejneger’s Scoter off the old scrapes at Musselburgh late afternoon. 2 Green Sandpipers on the Scrapes. Also this potter wasp nesting in the wall of one of the hides. @EdinburghNats @birdinglothian

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@stuart007464 That’s what I thought, inaturalist says A. gazella is the likely identification.

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@stuart007464 Took these at the eastern hide at the old scrapes this afternoon. Any ideas of what it is?