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So some Canada Geese in the UK may derive from Giant Canadas ('maxima' ssp) not the 'atlantis' ssp. The ones from Whitesands have large size, black on neck starting quite high up and white on cheek extending to lower bill; stayed separate from other feral ones @birdinglothian

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Magnificent swan-like Canada Geese briefly in Whitesands Quarry 31/10, huge compared with the Greylags in front, maybe Giant Canadas escaped from somewhere, all comments welcome @birdinglothian @WWTSlimbridge

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What looks to me like a large male 1st W Caspian Gull briefly at Whitesands today lunchtime @birdinglothian @EdinburghNats

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Fine Red-backed Shrike at JMCP, Snow Buntings at Torness, and a continental-type Coal Tit making a trilling call I haven't heard here but seems to be typical of continental birds @birdinglothian @EdinburghNats @ELCrangers

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A pale morph Common Buzzard at Whitesands today, mobbed by crows and vanished into trees, a first for me, white head, mostly white underwing and body, small white patch on tail only, some great images of this variant from N Germany and Sweden online @birdinglothian


Barred Warbler at Barns Ness this am after the rain stopped, still pretty flighty @birdinglothian

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For those that like this sort of thing, some interesting small Canadas on Whitesands Quarry this evening, think they originally arrived in the area on Mon with Barnies out of the NW heading for Holy Island @birdinglothian

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Quiet at Barns Ness yesterday, most exciting was a presumed imm Pom trying to take down a Herring Gull and failing; very late Whinchat still and splendid large Greenland-type Wheatear @birdinglothian

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Yet more shrike pics, the first shows the bird trying to catch a very out-of-focus cranefly . . . @birdinglothian

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Handsome Hawaiian Goose at Aberlady this pm, appears to have a blue ring on the leg (not visible in this image), ring not readable though @birdinglothian

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Got into a great - if freezing - position last night at Aberlady to go through the many hundreds of small waders, alas nothing more than a couple of Little Stints @birdinglothian

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GWE's still distant at Tyninghame where the geese hang out, heavily cropped and flew upriver after a few minutes @birdinglothian

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Female Common Hawker laying something unspeakable at the JMCP ponds, shades of Sigourney Weaver @enhs @BDSdragonflies

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Saw the v flighty Baird's 3x today and never got a really satisfying pic, at Thorntonloch with Bruce Kerr and Ed Parnell, then alone S of the lighthouse, then with KG at Whitesands - consolation prize a lot of calling, very distinctive call quite new to me @birdinglothian

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Lots of activity at Barns Ness today: 4 Sooties, 1 apparently smaller dark shearwater poss Balearic but not good view, Fin Whale surfacing and tall thin spout from another nearby , and 4 Porpoises N @birdinglothian @enhs


Does anyone know what this is? By a waterfall Edinburgh Pentland hills @BSBIScotland @PinkfootedGus

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Long yomp around Aberlady yesterday produced Emperor, Common Hawker and 4-spotted Chaser dragons, an amazing display of Bladderwort in remote ponds, and singing Sedge and Grasshopper Warblers @enhs

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Really great to stumble across a new site for Field Gentian, at least 60 plants, along the coast - in general rare and declining but holding on well in E Lothian, probably liking the wet spring as the sites I know are normally very dry @BSBIScotland @BSBIbotany @EdinburghNats

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7 males and 1 female Banded Demoiselle at the Tyne Bridge, Tyninghame E Lothian on Sunday @EdinburghNats @BDSdragonflies

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My favourite orchids at Aberlady, two vigorous hybrids which if I've read Cole and Waller correctly should be D. x kernerorum, the hybrid between Common Spotted and Early Marsh (certainly a lot of the latter about in all three main varieties nearby)? @ukorchids @BSBIScotland

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