Russian White-fronted Geese in flight at Stoneypath yesterday (with a single Greylag for scale comparison) #BirdingScotland

Perhaps not one for the purists, but these Mandarin Ducks at Pressmennan are beautiful all the same #BirdingScotland

Still 40+ Russian White Fronted Geese at Stoneypath Farm, East Lothian, moving between the flooded field and hillside to the North #BirdingScotland

Partially leucastic (I presume) Lesser Redpoll in my Edinburgh garden #BirdingScotland

Slightly closer views of the 8 Tundra Bean Geese at Hedderwick this morning #BirdingScotland

Heavy crop of Shorelark at JMCP this morning #BirdingScotland

8 Tundra Bean Geese still in field east of Foxlake this morning #BirdingScotland

White-billed Diver off Dunbar East Beach this afternoon, plus one of a handful of Purple Sandpipers rather closer on #BirdingScotland

Cold weather bringing small flocks of Redpolls and Siskins into my south Edinburgh garden. At least 4 Blackcap (2m, 2f) around too. #BirdingScotland

Ring-necked Duck at Queens Park Glasgow this morning

Mobile flock of 13 Snow Buntings at east end of Yellowcraig beach #BirdingScotland

Went looking for Jack Snipe around some Midlothian SuDS ponds - no joy (maybe a bit optimistic without a thermal imager!). But this Grey Wagtail was a fine consolation prize

No Bittern at Duddingston for me today, but some very smart regulars anyway #BirdingScotland

2 of 3 Russian White Fronted Geese still present among the pinks in the field west of the ponds at Longyester, East Lothian #BirdingScotland

Twite feeding in the sunshine at Musselburgh Esk mouth this afternoon (one of 25 present) #BirdingScotland

Caspian Gull at Snaresbrook Eagle Pond this afternoon

2025 saw my UK list up to 268 with 19 new birds. Among my favourites were American Pipit, Great Reed Warbler, Western Sandpiper & Marsh Sandpiper - the key being a long time alone with the bird close by. Obviously going to be harder to see new stuff, but I still have some shocking gaps.

Went looking for Russian White Fronted Geese at RSPB Rainham Marshes and found a goose with a white front (!) and a very well behaved Spoonbill.

Down from Edinburgh to Fareham for Christmas just as a male Cirl Bunting rocks up just beyond my old school. Family might be wondering where I’ve disappeared to tomorrow….

Long-tailed Ducks off the Musselburgh sea wall in the late afternoon sun #BirdingScotland

Water Rail, Penicuik #BirdingScotland

Water Pipit and Rock Pipit, Cocklemill Burn, Fife earlier today. The latter being rather easier to photograph #BirdingScotland

Bathing Song Thrush, Fife #BirdingScotland

Water Pipit showing well at Cocklemill Burn, Fife this lunchtime (near the second bridge) #BirdingScotland

Drake Ring-Necked Duck at Darnrig Moss near Slamannan this lunchtime. Flew East at 1:30pm #BirdingScotland

Black redstart, Torness sea wall @birdinglothian.bsky.social

Since I’m racing a cross country in Cumbernauld this afternoon, took the chance to find the Taiga Bean Geese flock north of Slamannan (not that easy to find!)

Another week, another Red-breasted Flycatcher - this one at Barns Ness old campsite this afternoon #BirdingScotland

Snipe and curlew at Musselburgh

Nice Red-breasted Flycatcher at Holy Island today, plus Yellow-browed Warbler, Spotted Flycatcher and Merlin the highlights

Nice street art on my run through Stoke Newington earlier this afternoon #Foxoftheday

Spotted Redshank at Musselburgh old scrapes yesterday afternoon. Showing almost as well as the Marsh Sandpiper #BirdingScotland

Pectoral Sandpiper still at the new scrapes Musselburgh this morning #BirdingScotland

Purple-backed Fairy Wrens, Kings Park, Perth WA. Very shy but showed eventually

Red-tailed Black Cockatoos, Perth

Laughing Kookaburras, King’s Park, Perth WA. Not a marsh sandpiper in sight!

Also at Musselburgh scrapes, this Lesser Black-Backed Gull was suggesting to this fox that it hunts elsewhere

2 juvenile Little Stints still at Musselburgh old scrapes at dawn this morning (+18 Ruff) #BirdingScotland

A Wheatear at Torness this morning and Stonechats aplenty at Barns Ness

2 Sooty shearwater north at 10:15 the highlights of a morning at Torness #BirdingLothian

Just the four tern species at JMCP sand spit this afternoon - Arctic, common, sandwich and roseate (one adult in each photo here). No sign of black or little, sadly #BirdingLothian

I’ve enjoyed seeing some cracking white-winged scoter photos on here this week. This is no such photo! (Musselburgh 6 am this morning) #BirdingScotland

A couple of smart knots on the old scrapes at Musselburgh this afternoon #BirdingScotland

Western Sandpiper with breakfast, Maidens Ayrshire, June 21 #BirdingScotland

Since I was in Ayrshire, rude not to! Everyone’s favourite Western Sandpiper showing nicely at Maidens this morning

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Good morning , thank you to @andrewlathameac.bsky.social‬ for today's #foxoftheday , a garden visitor .

Nest building Red Squirrel in Glen Feshie featuring wonderfully camouflaged tail!

Spotted Flycatchers, Aviemore on Saturday morning

And a few Pied Flycatchers